Spacelog Apollo 8

Roger. My temperature is 97.5.

Okay. Thank you.

That's what it was this morning when I felt badly.

Alright; thank you.

Do you want me to go to OMNI now, Ken?

I'd like for you to go to high gain.

High gain?

Yes, sir.

High gain.

This is Apollo 8 on high gain.

Roger. Reading you kind of weak now, but we're gonna take a look at it.

Houston, Apollo 8 on high gain.

Okay. I'm reading you loud with just a little background noise.

Apollo 8, Houston. We're not getting a good lock. I wonder if we could try making sure that we're in AUTO on the tracks and that we're in narrow beam width?

Standby.

How's that, Houston?

Apollo 8, this is Houston. What we're doing right now is collecting baseline data, and we'll be in this mode for another couple of minutes and then we'll be moving out to the second signal.

Apollo 8, Houston. How do you read?

Apollo 8, Houston.

Houston, Apollo 8. Read you five-by.

Okay. We are … we have some ground problems, and we're reading you weak but clear. We're ready to start into our test. We're going to be changing our modes so you'll probably hear a burst of noise as we make the change. This will be a noise that sounds like an S-band onlock. However, your AEC leader will lock that off. This is due to the loss of modulation on the uplink. There will be about 2 minutes, and during this time, you will hear one burst of noise.

Apollo 8, Houston. Voice check. Over.

Apollo 8, Houston. Ready to check.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go ahead, Houston.

Apollo 8, this is Houston. Do you read?

That's affirmative.

Okay. Thank you. Were you reading all along? We just—This is the first time we've heard you call back.

We've been reading you; we're trying to hold the noise down so we can get some sleep.

Roger. We'll be through with this in just a minute, I think.

Roger. I will answer you, but I'll try to do it quietly.

Okay, Bill.

Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.

Okay, fine. How about telemetry inputs PCM switch to LOW, please?

They're in LOW, Houston.

Roger.

Apollo 8, we've completed the third test; we're going into the final test now. PCM switch to HIGH, please.

Apollo 8, Houston. We're going to switch uplink to the upvoice backup for about 2 minutes, and may take a few seconds to link the transition. And we'll be back up at 33:56 in our normal mode to place the up-telemetry data switch to upvoice backup at this time. Over.

Roger.

Apollo 8, Houston on backup voice.

Loud and clear, Houston.

Okay, fine; thank you.

Apollo 8, let's go back up-telemetry data switch to DATA.

Apollo 8, Houston.

Apollo 8, Houston.