Spacelog Apollo 8

Apollo 8, Houston.

Go, Houston.

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.

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.

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.

Play it a little bit, and we'll talk about it.

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I can barely, barely hear it.

Needs to be just a hair louder.

That's good.

That will keep me awake.

Maybe you ought to crank it back down a little bit.

Great.

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Apollo 8, Houston. How was that?

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.

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.

Okay. Try it again, and I'll give you a little louder call; I've been trying to keep it quiet.

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.

Roger. Don't hesitate for me a bit.

Right.

Apollo 8, Houston. Check your yaw gimbal angle.

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You must have been reading my mind.

No, the DSKY's.

Oh, okay.

When you go to high gain, would you tell me?

Houston, Apollo 8.

Go ahead, Apollo 8.

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.

Okay. The OMNI is doing fine. I was just watching your middle gimbal angle there; it was getting a little far out.

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.

No, I'm sorry. I was just watching your middle gimbal.

Yes, this thing really slops around in deadband, but it's really nice flying otherwise.

Glad to hear that.

All I have used the while trip is pulse.

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.

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.

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.

Do they need it now, or can they wait until somebody else wakes up?

I guess we can wait, Bill. Is that a hard thing to get to?

How's that, Houston?

Okay. Stand by, Bill. We'll take a look at it.