<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">When we were doing research on this subject we also found out that the folks in Australia made a copy of the slow scan conversion, before transmittal to the satellite on a VR-1100.<div><br></div><div>This tape was sent to Johns Hopkins University where it has since disappeared.</div><div><br></div><div>We were quite involved in this a couple of years ago, up to and including a trip to Suitland MD and the federal records center. Nothing.</div><div><br></div><div>However, we did find over 200 historic NTSC video tapes from NASA and we are looking for ways (i.e. money) to transfer these tapes to digital.</div><div><br></div><div>Dennis Wingo</div><div>LOIRP Team Co-lead</div><div><br></div><div>Also, just this past week I met Marshall Williams, who worked at Ampex for ten years in the instrumentation division. He was on the design team for the FR-950 and the AR-550. I have pictures to show but the list won't let me send them.</div><div><br></div><div>I will post on Panarimo and link them later today.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 2, 2012, at 8:56 AM, C. Park Seward wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We have discussed the possibility of trying to find the original slow scan moon landing tapes. Here is a series of photos showing the difference in quality of the slow scan vs. the scan converted. At that time, the only was to get the image into a broadcast format was to shoot the slow-scan monitor (with slow decay phosphors) with a camera.<div><br></div><div>I also read that NASA would record a lot of tape for each mission and if the mission was a success, they would re-use the tapes. But I think it was the data tapes, not the special video tape. It's thought the original tape was probably recorded on a modified 660 in Australia.</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">For </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Apollo 11</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">NASA</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> installed a VR-660 as part of a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_TV_camera#RCA_slow_scan_TV_camera" title="Apollo TV camera" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">slow-scan</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> video system for recording at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeysuckle_Creek_Tracking_Station" title="Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Australia</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">. The </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-scan_television" title="Slow-scan television" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">slow-scan television</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "> video transmitted from Apollo 11 had a resolution of 250 TV lines at 10 frames per second, where it was then converted using equipment at the tracking station to standard 525-line 30 frames-per-second NTSC video, and then recorded to the VR-660."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_2_inch_helical_VTR">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_2_inch_helical_VTR</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Of course the other earth stations were not in view of the moon, thus only Australia could receive the signal from the moon.<br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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