Introduction – video overview of the TV sources

A word about ‘The Dish’

The Westinghouse TV camera and Slow Scan TV

Planning for the telecast and the Australian role
– Scan converters
– Honeysuckle
– Parkes
– plans for a direct feed to the Australian networks

TV from the Moon

Goldstone

Honeysuckle Creek
– Prime Minister Gorton’s early morning visit
– what happened at Honeysuckle
– video links via Willamsdale, Red Hill
– stills
– Super 8
– audio

Parkes
– elevation constraints
– video links via Mt Coonambro to Sydney
– wind storm

Sydney Video
– incoming circuits
– equipment, photos
– what it was like at Sydney Video
– outgoing circuits

Moree OTC

How the TV was broadcast to the world
– Houston and onwards
– Europe and UK
– Australian TV – Eastern states
– Australian TV – Carnarvon and Perth
– New Zealand delayed broadcast

Memories of watching the Moonwalk
– Boniecki audio tapes

Various video recordings
– HSK, Sydney Video, Australian broadcast, Houston, Super 8, Quad, Kine
– Comparison of the video sources

Others who saw the slow scan TV from the Moon
– DSS42 Tidbinbilla
– Carnarvon MSFN new
– DSS41 Island Lagoon
– Guam MSFN.

An Emmy for the TV!

The Tape Search (needs updating)

Busting myths about the Apollo 11 TV
– why the picture was ‘ghostly’
– Is it true the US networks were refused a clean feed and had to point their cameras at the big screen in Mission Control?
– was there really a 6 second delay in the picture?
– etc.

Buzz Aldrin’s face visible

Timeline – GET, US EDT and Aust EST (PDF)