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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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I was cycling the suit power which turns off the BIOMED periodically. I figured that would wake the doctors up.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Okay. Try it again, and I'll give you a little louder call; I've been trying to keep it quiet.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Roger.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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Okay. The OMNI is doing fine. I was just watching your middle gimbal angle there; it was getting a little far out.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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Yes, this thing really slops around in deadband, but it's really nice flying otherwise.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
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Bill Anders (LMP)
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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.
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Ken Mattingly (CAPCOM)
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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.
Spoken on Dec. 26, 1968, 9:40 a.m. UTC (55 years, 10 months ago). Link to this transcript range is: Tweet
