Restoring The Apollo Comms System

Restoring the Apollo comms system

In 1976 in a warehouse in Texas, Jimmie Loocke bought two tons of scrapped NASA equipment. Years later he realized it ...

We are treated to a very special tour of the nearby Stanford dish, and find evidence of its participation to the

... every step at the consoles, while replicating the transmission on our fully

We return our modified NASA transmitter and receiver to their original

We hook it up all together, and exhibit at DesignCon 2023. Many thanks to Samtec for their support: https://www.samtec.com .

We look inside and power up the

We hook up the AGC to our

Important step to get right! We figure out the 120V 400 Hz 3 phase power connections and the power supply control relays from ...

... https://www.youtube.com/curiousmarc/about 00:00 Recap of the

In the last episode, we managed to send Up Data commands using a PSK transmitter made up of HP equipment. But we were ...

We use an SDR radio to talk to our

We back out the last remaining modification from our NASA receiver and return it to its original

We

We demonstrate a locked bidirectional link between Earth and our

We remake tricky connectors and a control panel. Shout-out to PCBWay https://www.pcbway.com for donating all the PCBs for this ...

We embark on the

We open up the Up Data Link box, which was the remote control box for the spaceship, and power it up for the first time.