Well, if you really think so, Shut... sigh....

I recall a document speaking of a faint signal but not around T-Bar and not a signal used for chutes. If not mistaken they even give the model of the emergency beacon. I have no idea where it is in the 302's. 377 chimed in on the conversation. must of been over a year ago..

I believe the 302 was making it sound like it was possible he used it as a jump point but they ruled it out if I am correct. it's been a while since I read the document.

The signal tone was coming from Evergreen field north of Government island miles away from Tbar. it was on frequency 243.0 which is a emergency broadcast freq. it moved to Reynolds Aluminum plant west of Vancouver before fading out. this was on 12/26/71 at 3:30

any type of tracking device in the chutes go off when deployed. I don't think they start until deployed.

Could be a coincidence or some kid in a jeep testing a piece of surplus gear?  Nowhere in the 302 posted today does it say anyone had placed a tracker in any of the chutes? Maj Dawson said he wanted to put trackers in military chutes but of course that was vetoed and the military never supplied any of the chutes. Here's the 302 text below, as copied from another site.

7:25PM URGENT 11/26/71 TLA
TO: – SEATTLE (C164 – 81)
FROt-1: PORTLA ND ( 164-41)
UNlSUB; HIJACKING OF NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES FLIGHT THREE
ZERO FiVE, ELEVEN TWENTTYFOUR SEVENTYONE:” CAA -HIJACKING; EXTORTION
00: SEATTLE.
________________ OREGON AIR NATIONAL GUARD,
ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY THREE THIRTY P.M. TODAY AS HE WAS
MAKING APPROACH TO PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL AiRPORT IN F-ONE ZERO
ONE FIGHTER: HEARD A FAINT RADIO TONE SIGNAL BEING BROADCAST
ON TWO FOUR THREE POINT ZERO MC. A FREQUENCY RESERVED FOR EMERGENCY AIRCRAFT RADIO TRANSMISSIONS. SIGNAL FIRST HEARD NEAR EVERGREEN AIRPORT, JUST EAST OF VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON, THEN HEARD SECOND TIME NEAR REYNOLDS ALUMINUM PLANT WEST OF VANCOUVER. SIGNAL HEARD FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE MINUTES, DURING WHICH TIME __________ ATTEMPTED TO OBTAIN RADIO FIX ON AUTOMATIC DIRECTION FINDER EQUIPMENT WITHOUT SUCCESS AS SIGNAL FADED OUT. SIGNAL WAS OF
END OF PAGE ONE
TYPE TRANSMITTED BY EMERGENCY LOCATED BEACONS CARRIED BY GENERAL AVIATION AND MILITARY AIRCRAFT. NO SUCH BEACONS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN IN OPERATION, EITHER ACCIDENTALLY OR FOR TEST PURPOSES, AT TIME. FOR INFORMATION.
END
HANDWRITTEN NOTE “MANNING HANDLING”
 

he brought up the document just as I did a year ago. what ever it was, was moving but didn't last long. the bottom line is if it was a tracking device from 305 then it would of went off when he left the plane. that's how they work. it wouldn't start two days later. it's activated by pressure/altitude or the cord...it would of exposed him way before Evergreen. it has a short life with the battery. I don't know how easy they were to get in that period. 243.0 is a military emergency frequency. it's not a toy.

From the report you could almost calculate rate of travel in mph? Was the signal airborne, on the ground following roads, moving at walking or running speed .. ?   Whats the distance covered over the time period noted?

You need a directional antenna to find the signal. I don't know if they could track it by altitude. perhaps today, but back then I think it was just a matter of signal strength. we use to do it with CB's years ago.

11/26/71

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11/26/71

?  The hijacking and jump were on Wednesday, November 24, 1971.  11/26 is two days later? So is Cooper now running around two days later with the parachute-pinger going off on his back? Or in the money bag?

It's not logical anyway you look at it. even if he found them they would of went off when he left the plane and they would of had him. he couldn't of kept it because it would of been alerting them from the second he left the plane. I believe the FBI realized this and let it go....