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04 19 55 21
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8. We can't handle the OMNI switching for about thirty more minutes, till we get back to an 85-foot dish, so you will have to watch the antenna store for a few more minutes.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I don't see any loose sensor—the upper, upper …
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Bill Anders (LMP): Are you trying to call, Houston?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): No, I didn't. It sounded like you were getting an echo, and I checked, and I hadn't held the key down at the time either.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I don't see any loose sensors, but the upper sternal is beginning to irritate a little bit, but not badly; and possibly there is something going on there.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And did you copy about the antenna?
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Bill Anders (LMP): They really disappoint me, but I'll keep that in mind.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. I'd like to make a voice check with you.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston in the blind now. We're not receiving down-voice. We have data, and it appears it's probably a ground problem.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I got you that time. I take it you were able to copy us with the music? Is that affirm?
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Bill Anders (LMP): I was able to copy you all the time, Ken, but I could only hear the music when you were trying to transmit. And I wondered if you noticed cycling on my suit power switch when you—when you called me. I am hearing an echo now.
04 20 07 47
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Roger. I copy your echo. And what switch were you cycling?
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Bill Anders (LMP): I was cycling the suit power which turns off the BIOMED periodically. I figured that would wake the doctors up.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): It appears that we have more than one communications problem.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Calm it. (Laughter)
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Bill Anders (LMP): You are cutting out, Houston.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Oh, that was an inadvertent cut-in.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
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Bill Anders (LMP): You need the high gain, Houston, or will the OMNI's be okay?
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): 8, Houston. That's negative. The OMNI is okay.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Be advised that about 50—I am hearing these echos quite a bit of the time, and if you are trying to play music, I am not hearing it.
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Milt Windler (FLIGHT): Roger. We understand, and we are not trying to play music right now.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Who is this, COMM TECH?
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Milt Windler (FLIGHT): Ken is only human. This is his substitute; this is Flight Director.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Oh, I didn't recognize your voice there.
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Milt Windler (FLIGHT): I don't get to talk often.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Who is substituting for you now, Flight?
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Milt Windler (FLIGHT): DFD.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Things are looking pretty good from here. How about down there?
04 20 19 55
Milt Windler (FLIGHT): It couldn't be better.
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Bill Anders (LMP): You guys are doing a great job. I really appreciate it.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Going to be handling over sites at 25. I will make a voice check with you when we come up on the new site, and the ground says thank you for your kind words.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We will be standing by.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston through Honeysuckle.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Houston. Loud and clear.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Bill, and our BIOMED data still looks a little bit squirrelly. How about checking the blue signal conditioner on your BIOMED harness. You have one connector, should be the center package, has a blue connector on it. You kind of check that, and I don't know if you have changed the BIOMED harness leads recently; if you have, this might have caused our problem.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. I was just cracking open some acorns here for breakfast. Let me put them down, and I will check my BIOMED leads.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): There is no rush on it.
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Bill Anders (LMP): Everything seems shipshape.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.

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