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[@EEVblog]

NOTE: Due to time and computing resources on the road, all the promised videos from my 4 day Apollo 50th road trip are not available on EEVdiscover yet. They will be added once I get home. All videos will be added to the description of this video when available. But best to subscribe to EEVdiscover and enable notifications!

[@e74av]

p.s. I remember that you were asking about what content should you upload on main channel and what you would upload on another one. IMHO the perfect would be to have "short version" as "short reviews" on the main one and longer versions on the other channels. Some of this videos i wish to watch in longer version but not all of them. Although i wish to be informed about all the clips you are putting out there at least in short.

[@basshead.]

America is the greatest country in the world.

[@EEVblog]

@@e74av This IS the short version of this video. I plan on releasing a longer edit with more footage on EEVdiscover. I put this on here to celebrate the anniversary and also announce more content on EEVdiscover.

[@e74av]

@@EEVblog 5-10 min pls :D for this kinds and always a link to EEVdiscover

[@WacKEDmaN]

@@e74av i prefer longer videos...you cant please everyone....but ya get what ya given!... deal with it!

[@TommyCrosby]

You can see workers in the background puting a fence to prevent Dave from walking in with a screwdriver and tear it down!

[@brantisonfire]

Tommy Crosby “Don’t turn it on, take it apart!”

[@ELVTechnology]

@@brantisonfire beat me to it!

[@kissingfrogs]

So its not just our barricade fencing that tumbles over at a hint of a breeze.

[@DarthMaul41]

lulz

[@disorganizedorg]

Gives an additional indication of scale, which is cool.

[@EEVblog]

I choose to be a KZbinr in this decade and do the other things, not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

[@WacKEDmaN]

LOLz...dont tell me this was demonetised straight away!

[@EEVblog]

@@WacKEDmaN Still monetised

[@freeman2399]

Dave "JFK" Jones.

[@xenonram]

@@Okurka. there isn't any job that is harder than owning your own business... If you're doing it properly.

[@michaelsommers2356]

For those too young to remember: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, ..." er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm

[@mikeissweet]

I thought the image was upside down because it was received in Australia

[@JNCressey]

That's a good one 😂

[@ELVTechnology]

So it should have been the right way up when we received it 🙃.

[@fredygump5578]

obviously. you have to think of everything when you do a mission like this

[@rucker69]

@Manna Tech Feck off mate

[@ELVTechnology]

@Manna Tech umm not sure why you posted that in this comment thread which has absolutely nothing to do with debunking the moon landing. 🤷‍♂️

[@OldWhitebelly]

I'm lucky to be just old enough to have watched the landing as an 8 year old, old enough to understand what was happening. The thrill hasn't dissipated at all in half a century. I love seeing others get all geeked and excited about it. Great video!

[@supernanga]

"Ahh, joy forever!" I also state the same thing for EEVblog. Outstanding work. Thanks, Dave!

[@terry241]

I really enjoyed the video Dave your explanations were easy to follow, informative and very interesting... great effort, well worth watching... Thanks.

[@EEVblog]

Thanks

[@andynormancx]

One of you best videos ever Dave, really good. Loads of detail that I didn't know about.

[@EEVblog]

Thanks

[@TheDrunkenMug]

Simply awesome ! ! ! Thank you for showing us this, Dave :)

[@gower1973]

The guy that was responsible for that worldwide network was a Welshman called Tecwyn Roberts from Anglesey North Wales, he was the first Fido in the Apollo program and pretty much designed the Huston centre

[@Phantomthecat]

Well you learn something every day and I certainly did here - thanks for posting. 👍

[@gordonwedman3179]

Thanks for the look at one of Australia's contributions to the space program. The whole undertaking was way more complex than can be imagined.

[@LikeATreeOnAMountain]

It seems a bit of a stretch to say Australia contributed. The Australians that have worked there, sure, but Australia as a country, not so much. The complex is funded entirely by NASA, not Australia's CSIRO. NASA spends about $20 million a year keeping it open. www.cdscc.nasa.gov/Pages/faq.html www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/macfarlane/media-releases/over-fifty-years-space-collaboration-between-australia-and

[@andersmusikka]

Hats off to you Dave, fantastic video! Entertaining and informative. And it's obvious you put a lot of effort into this.

[@EEVdiscover]

Thanks.

[@zvpunry1971]

The funny way they converted the 10 fps SSTV to 30 fps NTSC in realtime. They had a special built machine that included a monitor and a camera filming it. The monitor was special in the way that the phosphors were much slower than on a regular monitor, this gave the NTSC camera time to record whole frames. The downside was increased motion blur that wasn't in the original footage. I wonder why they didn't rotate the video camera tube inside the camera, when they had to mount it upside down and tilted.

[@EEVblog]

Probably rotating would have required re-qualification.

[@ciano5475]

Because the camera was movable, and they used the same camera for the other part of the mission. After the landing, the astronaut used the camera in the right orientation.

[@zvpunry1971]

ciano: That is a good explanation. :) I somehow thought that camera was permanently mounted in that orientation.

[@CliffordHeath]

The other replies are wrong. The reversing switch merely inverted the drive connections to the horizontal and vertical deflection yokes in the picture tube, thereby inverting the image.

[@zvpunry1971]

Clifford: I don't think the previous answers are wrong, they are both plausible, especially the answer from ciano. I didn't ask how to flip an image on a CRT. I wrongfully assumed that the camera was permanently mounted upside down with a slight tilt, and wondered why they didn't just modify that camera instead of adding a switch to flip the image after it was received. By the way, after 9:50 mentions the scan converter switch and shows a picture. I know searched for "scan converter apollo" and found this interesting PDF: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/SMPTE-79-7-1970.pdf So the device I initially talked about is that scan converter and contained that switch to invert the image. Picture of the device is shown at 9:55 in the video and Fig. 9 in the PDF.

[@PierAisa]

Awesome Dave ! Thank you for all

[@donmoore7785]

How cool is this? Been watching the CBS coverage with video/audio from the mission. Thank you for posting this! By the way, been using your nixie build videos today, to research my own build. Your work is extremely helpful.

[@ioanniskyriakidis1495]

There were 5 more missions to the moon and it is a pity that no one remembers the rest of the crews. Only the first who set foot on the moon. Great video anyways. Thanks for showing us the dish!

[@sblack48]

Γιάννης Κυριακίδης i remember them all. I have their 8.5x11 crew portraits which I wrote away for from Nasa when I was a kid.

[@danwalker77]

Brillaint work EEVBlog!

[@pixelflow]

What a really cool part of history. Thanks for detailing all the cool communication tech they used to make it happen!

[@apollorobb]

I feel privileged to have been named after The Apollo Missions . Great Video Dave

[@EEVblog]

Nice!

[@japonicaren]

apollo 'we never landed on the moon' robb There ya go.

[@peanut71968]

“The Dish”, one of my favorite movies of all time!

[@deadfreightwest5956]

I consider this among my favorite "feel good" films. Always leaves me positively buzzed. Even though it's taken a hit with Dave's revelations, I still love it. And not for least having Sam Neill play a sympathetic role for once!!!

[@EEVblog]

Even Neil Armstrong dissed it in a letter to the Honeysuckle team!

[@BentConrod]

@@EEVblog So information in this CSIRO report is bunk? www.parkes.atnf.csiro.au/news_events/apollo11/pasa/on_eagles_wings.pdf

[@CliffordHeath]

The Honeysuckle folk I know had very mixed feelings about it at the time. It wasn't run by three NASA-trained monkeys, but by hundreds of highly expert scientists and support staff.

[@CliffordHeath]

@@BentConrod The Parkes signal during the first nine minutes was coming from their dish, but not from the primary focus, because the signal wasn't yet above Parkes' horizon. Instead it came from the much weaker offset focus feed, and the picture was worse than Goldstone's, and much worse than Honeysuckle's. CSIRO has always been a highly political organisation (prone to lying about this) however, and it was only this year that the evidence forced them to come clean: theconversation.com/not-one-but-two-aussie-dishes-were-used-to-get-the-tv-signals-back-from-the-apollo-11-moonwalk-108177

[@--Zook--]

With all the 50th anniversary hubbub, this is the most interesting video behind curious marc's

[@EEVblog]

Thanks.

[@--Zook--]

@@EEVblog It tells a interesting story that most people, including me, had no knowledge of. The rest of the coverage is regurgitation of stuff that most people "should" know.

[@cptlooney]

Great video Dave. Again, the detail is there!

[@gracc46]

Awesome.Great insight.Didn't know half of what you showed and said.WEll done Dave.

[@EEVblog]

Thanks.

[@roycefaggotter6860]

As always Dave your video's are full of info, thank you very much for this very informative one.

[@scorpio6587]

Thank you for getting the quote right!

[@drruncmd]

I thought you were going to say "this is where it was filmed!!". Conspiricy nuts go wild!!

[@johnpossum556]

Telepathically he did say that.

[@ElvirBegovic]

Probably he never heard of Stanley Kubrick.... :)

[@peebrain69]

Thanks for taking us along on the field trip!

[@peterjol]

I seem to remember watching it at the time and wondering how they took the video of the lunar module taking off and tracking it up into orbit....and laughing to myself at the thought going through my mind that perhaps someone stayed behind...

[@michaelsommers2356]

What today's young whippersnappers don't realize is how difficult global communications were 50 years ago. There were a few communications satellites, very few, but no global network of satellites, and the bandwidth of those that did exist was very limited. There were undersea cables, but again many fewer than today, with much less bandwidth. If you wanted to make an overseas phone call, you had to book it in advance, and it was very expensive. I remember that a phone call from Florida to Israel in about 1973 cost about $9 per minute, which is over $50 in today's money. Even long-distance calls within the US sometimes could not be placed because all the circuits were busy. The systems NASA set up for their manned space flight projects were huge advancements, even though ridiculously primitive by today's standards.

[@dash8brj]

Hours before the historical event taking place, everyone at HS creek are running around like headless chooks trying to get everything ready in time, then the prime minister turns up wanting to turn it into a PR stunt, and asks them to slew the dish out of the correct orientation for a bloody photo. I'd tell em to get stuffed. And p off, we're busy here. :P

[@EEVblog]

I mention that in the video.

[@sparkplug1018]

Id have told him we cant right now. But will be happy to do so after the event for photos and what ever.

[@davidpalmer9780]

@@sparkplug1018 I like the @dash8brj response better. PC speech wasn't invented back then.

[@sparkplug1018]

David Palmer True, but the political bs was. Unfortunately.

[@CliffordHeath]

Gorton wanted his spot in the sunshine. He got it - and will always be remembered for being a dick. Every Australian Prime Minister finds a different way to do that, except perhaps Bob.

[@jeancaetan9124]

A pleasure to meet you in person at Tidbinbilla right next to this dish on Saturday 20 July. As a fellow Electrical/Electronics Engineer, I am enjoying your videos. Wish I knew of your channel while at uni studying.

[@Spookieham]

Thanks Dave, great video. Must get my arse over to Canberra one day for a look around.

[@EEVblog]

Do it!

[@bensmith1383]

So in the movie "The Right Stuff", where did Gordo go in Australia to track the Mercury capsules?" Awesome video. My family lived in Cocoa Beach when Apollo 11 launched. I was 2 years old and still remember watching the launch from our front door. I learned a lot watching this video. Super glad you made it.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

If KZbin is going to ban videos questioning the moon landing, I'm now convinced it didn't happen.

[@restcure]

Yeah - because NASA/KZbin conspiracy.

[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@restcure Never believe anything until it is officially denied.

[@EEVblog]

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[@dheujsnrhfydhehehshshhdggsd]

@@EEVblog sir I adore your content and would never argue science with an engineer. My issue is that when I see the scales being tipped I by default throw up my skeptical view. When the tipping is being done by a megacorp I get doubly skeptical. All admiration for your work and I respect your viewpoint.

[@TheDuckofDoom.]

Goldstone and Honeysuckle actually had the same switch setting, it's just that Honeysuckle is already upside down...

[@ChristopherBrandsdal]

This was a fantastic video to watch! Great work.

[@BenMitro]

The ultimate evolution of the Hills Hoist.

[@chrisstevens2]

I'm surprised Dave did not try to take it apart. :)

[@ManuelCastro_man_]

chrisstevens2 well, they already took it apart for real ;-)

[@KissAnalog]

Thank you from an engineer in Utah! This is so cool to see!! I hope to come to see your country some day.

[@yassm]

Amazing video. I love your passion and enthusiasm for Apollo and EE.

[@margoparts6419]

Thanks for the eye opening view of achievements that engineers pulled to make the Apollo transmission happpen - amazing :) Cheers!

[@truthseeker3907]

Thank You EEVblog! Thumbs up! :) Indiana USA.

[@charleshall376]

Well done man, Love the enthusiasm and the content.

[@MARTINORMANCV]

I met a English guy at a BBC talk in London yesterday who (with his colleague) designed the imaging parts for the cameras used on the moon. On returning to the Eagle, Buzz Aldrin pointed his camera at the sun and fried it’s internals. They built them for the British Military and let RCA use them. He wasn’t told what the parts were being used for until the launch.

[@japonicaren]

He also pointed it at the earth from a low orbit / film set from the other side of the lunar module / prop to give the effect of the earth being a distant blue orb. But whatever floats your boat.

[@MrDoneboy]

Love everything about the NASA space program...Thanks, Dave!

[@bobkozlarekwa2sqq59]

Great video!

[@leandrolaporta2196]

Awesome! Didn't knew any of that, thanks!

[@perhansson6718]

Thanks Dave for this excellent video, I was listening to a show with some "experts" about the landing on Swedish radio, could not make heads or tails, yours is really allot more engaging, factually correct and entertaining!

[@ophello]

Per Hansson a lot. Two words. “Allot” isn’t a word.

[@PaulSteMarie]

Interesting. when I was in college I handled data from DSS 43 on a fairly regular basis as well as Goldstone and Owens Valley. I'm a little surprised that the DSS 43 and 44 antennas are set up in the Cassegrain configuration. Owens Valley has mostly prime focus receivers on the 40 meter dish there. I actually had to climb up one of those struts to the prime focus once when we needed to swap out a receiver front end.

[@nozmoking1]

"A lot of money back in the day..." One thing most people don't realize is that NASA contracts were "cost plus" contracts during Apollo. That meant unlimited+mandatory overtime. Some contractor's employees even when working locally were way from home for days or weeks at a time. The mantra was "Can you spend it faster than you can make it?" Some of us certainly tried.

[@jimsteele9261]

There was a ham radio operator in Kentucky who managed to pick up the VHF link between the astronauts on the lunar surface.

[@michaelsommers2356]

@Stephen Anthony The Southern Maryland Amateur Radio Club used to have access to a former DoD EME dish at the Navy's Cheltenham receiving station. Neither dish nor base are there anymore, though.

[@BrekMartin]

NORMALIZATION OF IGNORANCE Well it’s all right there in your name.

[@zerog2000]

Brek Martin please don’t feed the Internet Research Agency trolls

[@kevincozens6837]

Interesting to learn something about that tracking station and the part it played during the Apollo 11 mission. Back in the day I didn't think much about how the video signal was getting from the moon to my TV. Nowadays I know there are tracking stations all around the world. Here is another interesting thing confirmng the use of Honeysuckle tracking station. Go to apolloinrealtime.org/11/ and go to 109:24:12, turn off main audio, and select Network from the list of Mission Control Channels and you will hear a reference to Honeysuckle.

[@PapaWheelie1]

What a great story- thanks

[@john1537]

Nice effort for getting all this info, good stuff, thank you

[@russellgeisthardt9828]

The biggest thing I learned from going through the Real-Time Mission Simulator was just how much of their time and communication was dedicated to just making sure they could communicate

[@crimsonhalo13]

And now that it's decommissioned, we have the perfect venue for a scene in the next Bond film.

[@Rustinox]

Really nice video, Dave. I enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.

[@sandmanxo]

That was an interesting tidbit. I work at the Johnson Space Center and have Mission Control access but never looked much into the space network. I had no idea there were so many radio stations to support Apollo but it makes sense.

[@noamgonen6243]

Superb video ! Great edu value - can’t wait to share with my 10 year old son - thank you!!!

[@gus2747]

I remember the words "Honeysuckle Creek Station". What's in a name indeed!

[@zerog2000]

Love the Total Recall shirt

[@Paxmax]

Aaaah! Great completing info Dave!

[@hollensted]

Just awesome stuff Dave. Love it

[@borayurt66]

I remember reading (or watching) a documentary claiming that they did not have the technology to capture a certain frame rate video coming from the moon, so they just connected a regular TV monitor, and directed a shitty camera to its screen. That was why the initial live broadcast of the moon landing had a terrible picture quality and no one was able to what was going on...

[@CliffordHeath]

No, it was a scan converter. See above.

[@CliffordHeath]

The download speed for the telemetry was far above 2400bps. Command (upload) was slow (70kHz carrier bi-phase modulated) but telemetry data was huge, on a 1.024MHz subcarrier. I think the 2400 baud modem was decoding commands from Houston before sending it up.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

Keep on dishing, Dave! Love it!

[@Zomby1Woof]

Thank you Aussies for helping out the USA in our space missions. I was just a kid when all that was happening.

[@navusx]

Did not know there's an EEVdiscover channel as well, heading there and start watching thanks Dave. Btw been working around that area a few times and spot on can't even get out of your vehicle without stepping on the kangaroo poo.

[@ALFAGOMMA]

Great to see Honeysuckle Creek getting the attention it deserves since the movie "The Dish" gave virtually no credit at all. The former Station Director of HSK during Apollo 11 was not impressed when he saw the movie. Tidbinbilla deserves a mention too.

[@EEVdiscover]

Neil Armstrong wasn't impressed either! and said so in a letter he wrote to the Honeysuckle crew. I show this in another video on EEVdiscover.

[@electronicsNmore]

Great video Dave!

[@jburr36]

At the time it was the US v USSR. That was most of the motivation for all the effort put into the project

[@StringerNews1]

Unfortunately the video of the people from Honeysuckle Creek didn't touch on too many technical details. One thing that should be noted as to why the video was taken from California and not anywhere in Australia was because there was no satellite TV relay network back then to relay signals between continents. "Our World" was the first intercontinental TV broadcast in 1967, and the satellites used for it were oriented toward the northern hemisphere, so Australia was left out of the live event. In 1969 there was no satellite to relay TV signals from earth stations in Australia to the US, and undersea cables were configured for voice traffic, and their primary use was for the data modems that carried digital information to and from the Apollo spacecraft. Goldstone was the first place that offered a coaxial cable link (with booster amps every few miles) suitable for the bandwidth of the SSTV signal. Because this was how network TV was sent across the US at the time, the SSTV signal was converted to full-bandwidth NTSC there and sent as a standard NTSC picture over AT&T Long Lines coax to Houston. From there the TV signal was distributed to the press pool, and for US TV it was sent to network operations centers in New York, where it was switched into network programming and sent back out across the country. So TV viewers in Los Angeles saw a picture that had gone cross-country twice. No big deal when you consider that it had come from the moon!

[@CliffordHeath]

False! I was talking yesterday to the technicians who operated the links at the time. The Australian signal was converted to PAL sent to Gore Hill in Sydney and was broadcast all over Australia (I was watching in Melbourne), but the raw video was also sent from the Deakin switching centre (in Canberra) to the USA and was converted to NTSC to be re-broadcast there just 300ms later. I have a photo (taken Friday with Stan Anderson) of me actually holding the commemorative plaque before it has even been mounted at the Deakin centre.

[@StringerNews1]

@@CliffordHeath Are you a silly nationalist who believes that Apollo 11 was an _Australian_ moon shot? 😔 Sorry to burst your bubble. I have already explained why your story cannot be possible, and you have failed to explain why it might be, so just name-calling has got you nowhere. Houston is in the USA, and it was fed by the Goldstone, California site. Whether you like it or not, NASA was and is the United States space agency, and NASA got its television feed from Goldstone. Where foreign media got their TV feeds is a secondary consideration.

[@CliffordHeath]

@@StringerNews1 Page 16: www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloTV-Acrobat5.pdf says "The television signal from Parkes was sent direct to Sydney Video, over a separate PGM micro- wave link, where a choice was made between the HSK or Parkes television signals as to which would be sent on to Houston via satellite." Still claim there was "no satellite TV relay network back then to relay signals between continents"?

[@iceberg789]

it has been 50 years, really !!!!? feels like a century has passed ! people won't even gather around TVs anymore these days, to even see man's first steps on mars now.

[@bostedtap8399]

Great information and presentation, thanks for sharing.

[@alejandrorosales3416]

Thanks Dave!!! Your'e the best.

[@scowell]

My parents thought we should see the landing and first steps in color... so we went to a neighbor's house, they had color TV. Turns out it was in B&W! Our TV at home would have been better, color sets were much more blurry at the time. Also, I remember the confusion of whether the picture was upside-down, or actually, on its side... I remember the picture, but I don't remember being able to tell what I was looking at (I was 11). Still, great time to be alive... my childhood consisted of the Beatles and the Space Program!

[@nilz91]

Thanks Dave, this is far more better than any moon landing deniers research has done (which is limited to what they can find on google)

[@EEVblog]

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[@Roxor128]

I know what you mean about the 'roo poo! They've been trimming my lawn this winter. It's covered in the stuff. I don't dare stray from the path when hanging out the washing.

[@WacKEDmaN]

Nice one Dave...looks like ya having the time of ya life!

[@brettcashmore9452]

My understanding is the Parkes DID receive the Apollo 11 signals on their Off-Axis Receiver as soon as Armstrong made the Circuit Breaker. At 8 minutes when Parkes switched to the main beam that was when NASA switched to Parkes.

[@sparkoceanic]

Wow this was a well made video. Just earlier, i was watching an interview with a moon landing conspiracist that was also posted today! It's been quite a ride.

[@japonicaren]

The conspirators are NASA, the 'Astronauts' etc. Get your polarity right ;)

[@Spookieham]

I grabbed Andrew Tink's book "Honeysuckle Creek : The Story of Tom Reid" Dave is reading at the end. I had no idea Tom was a Glaswegian Elec Engineer like me. Available on Amazon Kindle etc.

[@marcofranceschini7214]

Super interestingly Dave...many thanks.

[@jameskrivitsky9715]

Thanks Dave, I did not know how detailed and involved efforts were necessary for the transmission of the moon walk. As the late newscaster Paul Harvey would say...." And now you know THE REST OF THE STORY " ! J K

[@EEVblog]

There is a lot more too!

[@MCCRITTERS]

Great job! I very much enjoyed this video.

[@100SteveB]

Great video Dave! Really interesting. Now, if money were no object, and seeing that it's no longer used, wouldn't it be great if they could move the dish back to it's original location, plus of course give it back it's original looking tripod in the centre. Would cost an absolute fortune though. But at least it's been preserved at it's current location, rather than simply being demolished once it's service life was over.

[@kissingfrogs]

I did enjoy that. Thanks Dave

[@guillep2k]

Hey, Dave. How do you design a 26KW transmitter? Not with push-pull transistors I guess...

[@CliffordHeath]

Traveling Wave amplifier, google it. [Correction, it was a klystron, a precursor to the TWT]. There were no transistors that could do S-band (2.2GHz) at the time, let alone power ones.

[@ruikazane5123]

"A switch that made history" Now that's exciting...imagine a single tactile button switch making history!

[@nicholasroos3627]

worth using a proper toggle switch instead of that tactile pshbutton garbage!

[@gafaff]

Visited the Honeysuckle Creek site in the early 90's - the abandoned buildings had been pretty thoroughly vandalised, so I can see why they demolished them.

[@g00glian0]

Awesome Dave! In didn't know any of this.

[@meande-man5351]

Awesome

[@donmoore7785]

The original road up to Honeysuckle looks "a bit how are you doing?" as you say :)

[@landspide]

Awesome Dave, I camp out there regularly as the hikes are great in the area. Did you check out Orroral too?

[@EEVblog]

Didn't even have time to scratch my butt :-(

[@landspide]

EEVblog hehe, spewing, another time maybe... It looked like a good trip though!

[@waynej747]

I recall reading somewhere that not only was Goldstone’s image still upside down, but they also had their contrast and brightness settings all set wrong.

[@EEVblog]

Yep, that story is in one of my videos to come.

[@MoritzvonSchweinitz]

But how did they relay the signals - especially the TV one - around the globe when it was coming from a remote location like this one, or the ships and planes?

[@EEVblog]

I have a video coming of a talk on that coming soon.

[@CliffordHeath]

ARIA was pronounced Arr-righ-ah, and they had twelve or fourteen of these "Snoopy" planes (maybe not all at the same time though?), which used to be parked in "the dog pound" - so said Stan Anderson during my 60 minutes conversation with him. He was the fleet commander, not just "an operator".

[@CornishMiner]

Great! Big thumbs up.

[@ThisIsARubbishName]

The Dish is good, too. I was wondering where you were, like 'where is Dave? That's not Parkes?' Now I have learned - Canberra is fucking dry even in winter.