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Message Boards => Apollo 13 Moments of Interest => Topic started by: MadDogBV on February 16, 2023, 12:28:04 pm

Title: 058:26:57 Jim Fucci expresses his displeasure at Parkes being inoperable
Post by: MadDogBV on February 16, 2023, 12:28:04 pm

NETWORK Ron DiCosmo gives PROCEDURES Jim Fucci a briefing on the current state of Parkes (the 210ft radio telescope otherwise known as "The Big Dish"), and the inability to get LM data.

Link: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=058:26:57&ch=5 (https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/?t=058:26:57&ch=5)

Title: Re: 058:26:57 Jim Fucci expresses his displeasure at Parks being inoperable
Post by: Stephen Slater on February 23, 2023, 06:50:27 pm

Thanks for finding this. I passed the info on to the Operations Scientist at Parkes... and he then passed the recording on to Geoff Foote and Bruce Window. They're the people the controllers were talking about driving to the telescope to setup the microwave relays and re-configuring the antenna....

Title: Re: 058:26:57 Jim Fucci expresses his displeasure at Parks being inoperable
Post by: MadDogBV on February 25, 2023, 10:10:51 am

Awesome! I'm glad to see that this recording had a lot of historical significance.

Title: Re: 058:26:57 Jim Fucci expresses his displeasure at Parkes being inoperable
Post by: mdinn on February 25, 2023, 06:17:31 pm

Parkes was not scheduled to support. Short view periods. HSK and HSKX could give good enough comms, especially with the deployed surface S band antenna.
And getting Parkes up and go was far more complicatd than just "adding a portable microwave link"
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