So much radio goodness in this video. The enthusiasm of the narrator is unmistakable, and entirely justified.
A number of things struck me:
— Nice shout out to our beloved Parkes Radio Telescope, of “The Dish” fame.
— I like how the French narrator takes some friendly jabs at out use of “archaic British measuring units,” and his skillful use of American slang” “Let’s open up these bad boys!”
— Wow, they filled the radio cases with Nitrogen! That will definitely save you money on De-Oxit!
— When they opened up the boxes, the construction looked very similar to what I found inside my HP-8640B frequency generator.
— Collins built some of this stuff.
— 11.6 watts to transmit the TV signal from the moon.
— PLL.
— A tube type amplifier.
— Lots of SMA connectors, but many BNCs also, right?
— Finally, and this is really amazing: THEY HAD A MORSE KEY WITH THEM, JUST IN CASE.
Thanks a lot to Bob, KD4EBM for sending this to us. There will be more episodes. These guys intend to fire up the equipment.
cool stuff. here is a PDF that NASA SP-87 proceedings of the 1965 conference on S-band https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/NASA-SP-87.pdf