The greatest uplink ever

[Dave Doherty]

A monumental achievement.

Your email also explains something we often heard when the network failed in 
those days.

The problem was always "westa Chicago" but we never knew how far "westa" it 
was...

-Dave Doherty
 Skywaves Consulting LLC
 PO Box 4
 Millbury, MA 01527
 401-354-2400
 202-370-6357 (DC)




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>
> For someone who 40 years later frets about getting a clean fiber
> signal from Toronto to Watertown in HD it is good to look back at the
> greatest uplink challenge of them all which was getting live TV from
> the moon in 1969
>
> Heck 40 years ago AT&T has problems getting a signal from Waltham to
> Goffstown, NH when it rained plus the direction of network feeds from
> east to west and back all depended on a relay station in Iowa some 200
> miles west of Chicago
>
> A tip of the hat to the engineers 40 years ago who made this work as
> well as it did
>
> http://www.honeysucklecreek.net/Apollo_11/TV_from_Moon.html
>