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[Guest_Sedna_*]

Hi guys,

I think that tonight Ariane 5 ECA has shown again to be the most powerful orbiting "artifact" in the planet...

Don't you agree?

[edstrick]

I audiotaped TV coverage of the Apollo missions with direct connections to the TV speaker wires so the fidelity's pretty decent, though not true high fidelity. Starting with Apollo 14, I had a stereo recorder, and used 2 TV's with different channels on the left and right. Unfortunately, either one network's microphone would DIE, HORRIBLY as the Saturn V sound reached the press stand, or they wouldn't have an external mike, or one network would use landline and one would use a Sat link, so there'd be a 1/4 second delay between channels.. (fixable, nowdays)...

But on Apollo 16, everything worked... Walter Crankcase <grin> on one channel, NBC or ABC on the other.. Mission control and the crew in the "center" channel, and the Saturn in ***STEREO***.... ooooooooh....

I also have Saturn 501 in mono.. the first test flight.. as Walter said, at t +15 seconds.. "MY GOD! THE BUILDING'S SHAKING! THE BUILDING'S SHAKING HERE!"
It's mono... it's low-fi... but it's pretty damn decent... I gotta digitize the reel-to-reel tapes one of these millenia.