<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">On Jul 16, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Don Norwood wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The link that was posted to the Honeysuckle info site ( <a href="http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/station/video.html">http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/station/video.html</a> ) also indicated that a VR-1100 was used. The site says that 660's were used instead of the 1100 after Apollo 14. But a color pic on that site which includes the VR-660's and the VR-1100 clearly shows that the 1100 was in record mode at that time, and the caption claims that it was during Apollo 17. </div><div> </div><div>Don</div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div></div><div>It looks like the VR-660's got used for a lot of things during Apollo.</div><div><br></div><div>We learned this morning that a pair of modified VR-660's were used to record the slow scan video signal at Parkes. Those were the only straight video recorders at Parkes. The other recorders were Mincom 22 data recorders.</div><div><br></div><div>From the Parkes website, photo of the VR-660's:</div><div><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/index.html">http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/index.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><table align="right" width="256" height="173" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/ampex_tapes.gif"><img width="256" height="173" src="cid:6E5E02D7-FF7D-4586-B7A7-0BC7E24EA29C"></a><br><font size="2">Photo CSIRO: The 2 inch video tape recorders at Parkes.</font></td></tr></tbody></table>As the video and telemetry downlink was being received at Parkes, it was recorded onto 1/2 inch magnetic tapes on a Mincom M22 instrumentation recorder at a rate of 120 inches per second. These tapes had to be changed every 15 minutes during the whole period of the moonwalk. </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Times" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></font></div><div>If this caption is correct, the modified VR-660's are pictured here.</div><div> </div><div>Click here for a bigger picture of the VR-660's at Parkes:</div><div><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/ampex_tapes.gif">http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/ampex_tapes.gif</a></div><div><br></div><div>The page continues:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; ">The scan-converted commercial NTSC standard television at Sydney Video was recorded on an Ampex VR660 two-head helical recorder using 2-inch tape.</span></div><div><div><br></div></div><div>Which is here, just off the right side of the photo on this page:</div><div><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/parkes_comms.html">http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/parkes_comms.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Bigger photo: <a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/sydney_video.jpg">http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/sydney_video.jpg</a></div><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/sydney_video.jpg"></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><p><table align="right" width="238" height="189" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/sydney_video.jpg"><img width="238" height="189" src="cid:FE0B7970-C68B-4AB6-9B95-3D42E5878E85"></a><br><font size="2">Photo courtesy of Richard Holl: The scene in the OTC Paddington terminal. (L-R) Charlie Goodman, Verne McGlynn, Richard Holl, Elmer Fredd, Ted Knotts, and Ray Louve.</font></td></tr></tbody></table>The photograph on the right illustrates the scene in the OTC Paddington terminal. Charlie Goodman is seated to the left of Verne McGlynn (his surname is uncertain) who is operating the switch that selects the Parkes or Honeysuckle Creek TV. The console has four small monitors and one large monitor. Of the four small monitors, the top left one had the TV from the Honeysuckle Creek scan-converter and the top right monitor had the TV from the Parkes scan-converter. The bottom left monitor displayed the TV from the ABC and the lower right monitor had the TV from Houston. The large monitor was displaying the output of the switch.</p><p><a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/dick_holl.jpg">Richard Holl</a>, seen standing with his back to camera, was the Bendix Field Engineering Corporation engineer who helped design modifications to the RCA scan-converters. He was the first to arrive in Sydney, and with the help of OTC technician, Wayne Ozarko, he installed all the equipment seen in the photograph. Elmer Fredd is seated at the scan-converter. To his right is Ted Knotts standing at an oscilloscope. Ray Louve is sitting in front of an Ampex VR660 video recorder.</p><p>Behind Charlie, just out of view, was another room known as the <a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/itoc.jpg">International Telecommunications Operating Centre (ITOC)</a>. Here the OTC personnel controlled the relays that fed the signals to Charlie Goodman and his team. In charge of ITOC was Bob Goodman (who was no relation to Charlie). Bob was the OTC International Co-ordinator for all the transmissions between Australia and the USA. <a href="http://www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/images/ITOC_at_Paddington_with_Bob_Goodman.jpg">There was a glass-panelled wall separating the two rooms that allowed the OTC and ABC personnel to monitor the broadcast from the Moon.</a></p></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>