Ed von Renouard (“Video Von”) is seated at the initial installation of the RCA scan converter before the slow scan rack was installed (note the camera in the top left corner of the rack). This probably would have been in 1967 or 68.

Compare it with the photo below, taken during Apollo 12 in November 1969.

Scan: Ed von Renouard. Click image for a larger version.

Ed von Renouard and the Mincom M22 data recorders.

During the Apollo 11 EVA, the television was not only video recorded on the Ampex VR1100, but the slow scan video data was also recorded along with the rest of the telemetry from the Lunar Module. These – along with the videotapes – were shipped to Goddard and Houston after the mission (where most of them were reused!).

Polaroid scan: Ed von Renouard. Exact date is unknown.
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Honeysuckle Creek Test Equipment Supervisor Nevil Eyre in the video section during Apollo 17.

Note the two Ampex VR600 2" helical scan video-tape recorders on the left and the older Ampex VR1100 on the right.

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Polaroid photo scanned by Ed von Renouard.

And this is the scene that was on the monitor – Apollo 17, EVA 1, Jack Schmitt setting up the SEP (Surface Electrical Properties Experiment) at 123:07:30GET.

With thanks to Ian Regan for finding the video segment.

This screenshot is from Mark Gray’s ‘Apollo 17 Complete Downlink Edition’ DVD set. Click the image for a larger version.

The Ampex VR660 recorders and associated equipment.

Photo: Ed von Renouard. Click image for a larger version.

Another photo of Nevil Eyre at the video equipment during an Apollo Lunar EVA.

On the monitor – the Rover-mounted TV camera is looking down at the rover. One of the Astronauts is visible in the distance on the right.

From a Polaroid scanned by Nevil Eyre. Click for a larger version.

Nevil Eyre at the video racks, near the start of the first Apollo 17 EVA – at 122:25:48GET.

From left: Nevil Eyre, Bryan Sullivan (farthest from camera, leaning forward), John McLeod (next to Bryan) and Les Paal.

On the monitor, we see television from Geology station 1, near Steno crater.

See the screenshot below.

Polaroid by Ed von Renouard, scanned by Nevil Eyre. Click for a larger version.

From left: Nevil Eyre, Bill Perrin (standing), Evonne Vey ? (seated, back to camera) and Les Paal.

This must have been taken around 6.5 hours later – just after the first Apollo 17 EVA had finished (like the photo below). Nevil is perhaps logging videotapes, and the TV from the Moon has been replaced by a special test picture ;-) on the monitor at right.

Photo: Ed von Renouard. Click for a larger version.

Hard working recorder people John Vanderkly (on left) and Brian Hale during Apollo 17.

Note the Mincom M22 recorders on either side (and the hand-winder on the mission clock!).

This was taken not long after Apollo 17’s first EVA. 128:57:52GET, or 10:50:53pm AEDT at Honeysuckle on Tuesday December 12, 1972.

On the Moon, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt are settling down to sleep – and activities in the recorder section are also winding down (or should that be winding up?).

Hamish Lindsay adds that this timing puts the photo “towards the end of our pass (Tues 12 Dec, AOS 1232 : LOS 2312) with MAD already tracking, and the two spacecraft in a rest period, the LM astronauts having just completed their first EVA (Start 1054 End 1806 AEDT).”

(This photo – and some of the others in this section – might best go in the Apollo 17 section, when we get that together.)

Photo: Ed von Renouard. Click for a larger version.