[NJARC] NASA - APOLLO comm systems

[Al Klase]

Interesting material, especially for TV geeks.  - Al


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Subject: 	[MRCA] NASA systems
Date: 	Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:05:33 +0000
From: 	Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu>
To: 	Military Radio Collectors Association (mrca at mailman.qth.net) 
<mrca at mailman.qth.net>



Just posted this stuff on another web site but thought with the 
anniversary of the moon landing and the like maybe one or two here also 
would like to look at this stuff.

Ray F

Everything you may have ever wanted to know about the S Band system used 
during Apollo:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/TM-X55492.pdf

Great document explaining the equipment, limited bandwidth issues 
resulting it the video only being 320 lines at 10 fps on the early stuff 
and the Westinghouse and RCA work in making all this possible:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloTV-Acrobat5.pdf



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