Yes, that’s Stan Lebar in the short video snippet with his camera.

Oh and thanks for the link, it sheds some light on the high resolution still mode that never got used. I was wondering about that too.

Oeh thanks for the link, that's fascinating! As is the museum btw

An LVDC would be interesting to see restored, and could happen a lot sooner than 2035.

if NASA keeps delaying the launch of Artemis they really mount Saturn V and launch first.

Hahaha

One giant leap for rickrolling

Yeah, small step for many geeks also XD

There's the smell test and if it doesn't fail that bad, there is the touch/ouch test feeling which part gets hot 🤣

@@MeriaDuck It's all fun and games until you have a TO92 outline branded into your finger tips. Those little fuckers can get surprisingly hot before they blow up.

Very true! The smell of old devices gives one a very comforting feeling inside.

@@tedvanmatje I'm not sure if it was the flux, the PCBs, or just nostalgia, but I absolutely agree, it's a comforting smell :D

Yes, worked on equipment that was hermetically sealed, and the smell would make it through the seals when it went into well cooked mode, a known failure mode that did occur on the power supply. Last thing to fail then would be the 3 mains fuses, when the transformer finally cooked itself, to the point it hard shorted. Fix was to order new power supplies, at a price that you thought they were made from solid Plutonium, because the same volume of gold would have been a lot cheaper.

Old optical trick... Optics is my trade :-)

Imagine if they would have had the technology back in the day (And Rick Astley had already been a thing): Millions of people all over the world watching this historic moment, and just as he takes the first step - in comes Rick Astley. That would have been the ultimate rickroll xD

@@Ranger_Kevin hmm he was born in 66 so no.

@@duderobi Even if, he would have been a toddler at this point. So one would have to take a time machine back and hack the broadcast. And then nobody from the time period would get the joke, probably. But it would be funny nonetheless.

@@Ranger_Kevin you said he was a thing which he wasn't but else you are right. I like rickrolling i have to giggle everytime.

Imagine if the aliens eventually reach our planet and to greet us, play back that 'most-played-music-piece-of-the planet'

How do you know they can't, what you don't understand, is the public wasn't allowed to see what they actually filmed on the moon. Are you people really super smart? The people employing you and running this charade are even smarter because the technological dividends were huge.

The 'hoax' is a cover for what was seen on the moon, you can hear it yourself listening to the right tapes. Nothing is really hidden if you aren't a 50iq simpleton.

@@N4CR5 which tapes are those. the Ham radio tapes? the only way I know what they saw is some people have extracted images from the negatives after they airbrushed features from the sky on some originally released photos.

Thanks!

We have a Vanguard arcade machine at the museum. The speech would only work whenever it felt like it. Sometimes speech, sometimes not and always some weird crackly noise in the background. I pulled the tantalums coupling the speech audio into the op-amp mixing with the rest of the system and measured them with the Testofon (cue elevator music: This is a displayless tester that converts measurement current into audio frequency, so anything you measure gives off a specific audible signature and after a while of using it you can say, that's a diode; that's a 10k resistor; that's a 470µF capacitor; this capacitor is leaky...) and instead of the cap being short or breaking down at a certain voltage, it was all over the place, I got half a melody out of it, and it wouldn't stop or settle! And then there was a pinball machine (Game Plan's Pinball Lizard) where the sound would work fine but after about an hour, when you started a game, it went into that drum loop and never got out - it was waiting for the ball shoot signal to go into normal sound effects mode, but that signal had to go through a pulse shaper that used - you guessed it - a tantalum. That said, Tantalums usually work perfectly fine or they break down at a certain voltage or they are just plain shorted.

Keep believing the dream.

😃

If you think about it, faking the landing would cost more than actually going to the moon - lol -. You have to build all the equipment and make sure it works incase anybody else gets hold of it, like how it's in museums now, and tests it to see if it can actually do what it's supposed to do. You would also have to keep paying 400,000 people for 60 years to keep their mouths shut - lol -.

Probably higher than actually land on the moon🤷‍♂️

This is a common misconception. Kubrick was famously terrified of flying and shot everything in the UK, painstakingly recreating the look of each location with imported real-life props. The moon landing was faked in the UK, but they had to go to the moon to get Kubrick real moon dust and rocks for the sets. That's why they flew so many missions.

Dammit - I just made a comment about the operating hours counter sounding exactly like the panels in Star Trek TOS (because Marc inserted a caption into the video saying that the noise comes from these, it's at the 6:00 mark) - you beat me to it.

Hi Eric how are you doing 😊

At the time our consensus was that the camera was pointed at a reflection of the Sun, perhaps on a helmet visor. But further evaluation indicated (not convincing) that the color wheel got damaged perhaps by impact to something. If you examine the video, the image does not show a Sun Burn, but rather an object obscuring the image. Color wheel? As I recall (vaguely because of time), that camera had a color wheel in front of the Vidicon, in sync with the 500Kh used for sync burst, and after some processing at Houston, a color picture was produced. This feature was not available at our station. We only converted slow scan to NTSC, and this was done at the RCA Scan Converter contraption (Rumor that it cost $1M a piece). Each station had one, plus another at Houston or Goddar.

Don‘t say that. It hurts 😫

Hi Jim how are you doing 😊

The only tapes erased were a backup copy of the slow scan TV.

Probably a lapel microphone.

Yes, he does have a lot of fans. 😆

Those little skate boarding wizards in the Tektronix manual were there for a reason!

Most of the analog cameras use higher resolutions now and are not compatible with a regular TV. Some can even get 4K video down a piece of RG-59 coax.

If you can find an SDR that operates below 600kHz. Anyways it would be more appropriate to construct a traditional circuit with currently made components and using the fact that computer graphics card from the 1990s can produce component signals at nearly arbitrary frequencies and resolutions by simply setting the clock dividers in SVGA registers. The component video at 320 lines nominal, 10 fps would be fed into the reconstructed camera circuit to output the high efficiency waveform with 500kHz sync bursts then fed to the transmitter. On the receiving end, 1980s green computer monitors may feature the needed slow phosphors, needing only a traditional circuit to detect the sync pulses and output separate sync and chroma signals for the detuned monitor.

Don't feel too bad. According to Mark Stein and apparently Viva Frei the landings never happened. The equipment displayed on this video does not exist. It has been a cover up all along.

@@ihatemybosses I'm way ahead of them. I don't exist either! Take that, moon landing deniers!🤣

Hi John how are you doing 😊

Maybe those displays showing high frequencies on 7 segment LEDs are really his electric meter showing units used 😜

They had to put an electronic meter on his house as the old one exploded due to the centrifugal force as it reached high rpm😁

@@Spookieham -- Spins so fast it now operates as a table saw.

Jajaja

Hey, younger TV director who missed the analog era here! I see in concert videos from the late 70s and 80s that the camera operator sometimes gets the stage lighting in frame, creates some vaguely psychedelic trailing effect, but it doesn't seem to "burn in". Did some tubes have a way to mitigate that damage caused by point sources or were otherwise just less susceptible to that kind of damage?

@@Aquatarkus96 Those trails around bright spots are a common effect of a plumbicon camera tube. Some tubes though can be destroyed by bright light sources, like some really sensitive photomultiplier tubes. I don't personally think that TV tubes would suffer from an indirect exposure to light. They generally didn't have a great lifespan as the image became too dull for broadcasting pretty soon.

@@Aquatarkus96 Burn in is a problem if you intentionally or accidentally point it at the sun. Afaik some space tech has actually been destroyed like that. It's worth a google. Stage lights don't seem to be that much of an issue, though i wouldn't point the camera at a spot light, arc lamp or whatever either.

@@mfbfreak Yup, they pointed the camera at the sun on Apollo 12 and burnt the tube. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9pygKR-tJeVlWw.html

The late Al Bean was familiar with the process…

There was no provision for recording slow scan TV. Only after converting to NTSC. For this we had an Ampex 600, and the tapes were flown in a daily basis to Goddar, so we had nothing as record. However, there was a still camera pointing to the slow scan internal monitor and many pictures were taken. I still have one of them.

Hi how are you doing 😊

Still watching he said this after I typed it LOL. Or something like it.

Yep, that's exactly what it was. On one of the test boxes, there is even a knob to adjust the DC bias of the TV, probably for that very reason to avoid a shift.