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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.
04 19 56 05
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I don't see any loose sensor—the upper, upper …
04 19 56 18
Bill Anders (LMP): Are you trying to call, Houston?
04 19 56 21
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.
04 19 56 27
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.
04 19 56 43
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And did you copy about the antenna?
04 19 56 49
Bill Anders (LMP): They really disappoint me, but I'll keep that in mind.
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04 20 02 28
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. I'd like to make a voice check with you.
04 20 03 01
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
04 20 04 13
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
04 20 05 12
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
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04 20 05 50
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Radio check.
04 20 06 37
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.
04 20 07 12
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 20 07 17
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Houston. Read you loud and clear.
04 20 07 19
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. I got you that time. I take it you were able to copy us with the music? Is that affirm?
04 20 07 28
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?
04 20 07 57
Bill Anders (LMP): I was cycling the suit power which turns off the BIOMED periodically. I figured that would wake the doctors up.
04 20 08 10
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): It appears that we have more than one communications problem.
04 20 08 17
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
04 20 11 25
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Calm it. (Laughter)
04 20 11 36
Bill Anders (LMP): You are cutting out, Houston.
04 20 11 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Oh, that was an inadvertent cut-in.
04 20 11 45
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay.
04 20 18 34
Bill Anders (LMP): You need the high gain, Houston, or will the OMNI's be okay?
04 20 18 50
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): 8, Houston. That's negative. The OMNI is okay.
04 20 18 56
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.
04 20 19 06
Milt Windler (FLIGHT): Roger. We understand, and we are not trying to play music right now.
04 20 19 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Who is this, COMM TECH?
04 20 19 22
Milt Windler (FLIGHT): Ken is only human. This is his substitute; this is Flight Director.
04 20 19 32
Bill Anders (LMP): Oh, I didn't recognize your voice there.
04 20 19 36
Milt Windler (FLIGHT): I don't get to talk often.
04 20 19 37
Bill Anders (LMP): Who is substituting for you now, Flight?
04 20 19 43
Milt Windler (FLIGHT): DFD.
04 20 19 46
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.
04 20 20 03
Bill Anders (LMP): You guys are doing a great job. I really appreciate it.
04 20 23 23
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.
04 20 23 38
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. We will be standing by.
04 20 25 36
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston through Honeysuckle.
04 20 25 42
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger, Houston. Loud and clear.
04 20 25 43
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.
04 20 26 18
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.
04 20 26 25
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): There is no rush on it.
04 20 28 21
Bill Anders (LMP): Everything seems shipshape.
04 20 49 26
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
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04 20 49 58
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston.
04 20 50 02
Bill Anders (LMP): Go, Houston.
04 20 50 05
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Bill. We're ready to try this music on a different kind of lash-up this time. What I'd like to do in order to make sure that we maintain voice COMM is when you get it if you would, give us a call and tell us you have the music and any comment about its relative volume or anything like that. And if I get your call, then I'll call you back and tell you. And what will happen is when I go to talk to you we'll drop the music link. And we can go ahead and take over the switching of the antennas if you like.
04 20 50 49
Bill Anders (LMP): okay. I'm in Bravo Dog switch configuration, and go ahead with the music. Be advised last time the fidelity was low, and the volume was too high.
04 20 51 02
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. And if you'll give us the same kind of comment, hopefully not the same comment but the same type of evaluation when you pick it up this time.
04 20 51 15
Bill Anders (LMP): Play it a little bit, and we'll talk about it.
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04 20 52 15
Bill Anders (LMP): I can barely, barely hear it.
04 20 53 21
Bill Anders (LMP): Needs to be just a hair louder.
04 20 53 37
Bill Anders (LMP): That's good.
04 20 53 49
Bill Anders (LMP): That will keep me awake.
04 20 54 03
Bill Anders (LMP): Maybe you ought to crank it back down a little bit.
04 20 54 16
Bill Anders (LMP): Great.
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: (End music)
04 20 54 53
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. How was that?
04 20 54 58
Bill Anders (LMP): That's real good for background level type, Ken. Maybe you can do some logging in here so that's real nice at that level; maybe for anything else it could be a little bit louder, but that's good for now.
04 20 55 10
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. That's about the MAX volume we can take down here; so if you want to talk to us, you may have to call us once or twice. You're just barely equaling it.
04 20 55 24
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. Try it again, and I'll give you a little louder call; I've been trying to keep it quiet.
04 20 55 30
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Oh, yes, that's all right. Don't—I was aware you were calling; I just didn't make out what you said. And from now on, any time you call, we'll drop the music, and I'll talk to you.
04 20 55 42
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger. Don't hesitate for me a bit.
04 20 55 46
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Right.
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04 20 56 00
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): And, Bill, we're going to have to wait until we get around to Bravo before we start switching. Our margin is still a little bit low.
04 20 56 10
Bill Anders (LMP): Okay. I'll just go ahead and switch it and save you all that trouble.
04 20 56 14
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Thank you. Our midnight DVA show's back on the air.
04 20 56 20
Bill Anders (LMP): Roger.
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: (Begin music)
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Bill Anders (LMP): Really great now.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Apollo 8, Houston. Check your yaw gimbal angle.
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04 21 15 04
Bill Anders (LMP): You must have been reading my mind.
04 21 15 07
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): No, the DSKY's.
04 21 15 13
Bill Anders (LMP): Oh, okay.
04 21 15 21
Bill Anders (LMP): When you go to high gain, would you tell me?
04 21 15 46
Bill Anders (LMP): Houston, Apollo 8.
04 21 15 53
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Go ahead, Apollo 8.
04 21 15 56
Bill Anders (LMP): Ken, do you want me to use the high gain when we come around, or is the OMNI sufficient? It doesn't matter to me.
04 21 16 07
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. The OMNI is doing fine. I was just watching your middle gimbal angle there; it was getting a little far out.
04 21 16 17
Bill Anders (LMP): Oh, okay. I thought you—I was, too. I thought you said check the DSKY, and I thought you were talking about the high gain antenna.
04 21 16 23
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): No, I'm sorry. I was just watching your middle gimbal.
04 21 16 25
Bill Anders (LMP): Yes, this thing really slops around in deadband, but it's really nice flying otherwise.
04 21 16 40
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Glad to hear that.
04 21 16 47
Bill Anders (LMP): All I have used the while trip is pulse.
04 21 16 54
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): You just woke the doctor up. You said pulse, and he came alive. And he'd like to know if you did in fact, check out the BIOMED harness.
04 21 17 07
Bill Anders (LMP): Yes, I tightened down all the plugs and checked all the leads, and everything looked in order. And when the other fellows wake up, if you remind me, why, I'll give it a more thorough going over.
04 21 17 55
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay, Bill. It's been suggested that they would like to see you try switching the two leads, you know, a yellow and a blue one, and just go ahead and switch them, and they'll sacrifice their pneumogram because they'd rather have the EKG.
04 21 18 25
Bill Anders (LMP): Do they need it now, or can they wait until somebody else wakes up?
04 21 18 35
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): I guess we can wait, Bill. Is that a hard thing to get to?
04 21 18 43
Bill Anders (LMP): You have to take your pants off and about everything else—stand by.
04 21 22 07
Bill Anders (LMP): How's that, Houston?
04 21 22 13
Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM): Okay. Stand by, Bill. We'll take a look at it.

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