Apollo Comms Part 21: TV from the Moon

turn on the camera? So in the settings here, on the camera side, I'm connected to a, TV FM input, it goes to the camera. So here we have to convert it to TV. Oh, he didn't like that! Because? If we put it on television... Oh! What the hell? Oh, now he moved it somewhere! Let me go in a larger span. And 20MHz. Redo the TV broadband? Yeah, it just changes it. That's strange, I didn't know that. Annoys our receiver. It changed sides, but automatically compensated the frequency. Okay, so we're on TV, is the camera on? Not yet!

Ready? Yes. Yes, oh I have it! We have video! We are streaming! It is too high? No! We are transmitting video from the

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! Are! Oh really! Well, how many volts do we have? Yes, a few volts. That low is fine. Wait a second, wait, wait, I have to get out of 50 (Ohms). 1 Mega-Ohms, there you go, I got it. Oh! Oh! Well, that was easy. TV from the

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! So this goes through the transponder? Absolutely. Can you move a little in front of the (camera)? Someone? Yes. Oh, that looks like a lamp. Go down a little more.

There. There is! Wow! Try it again? Yes, I know why! The change is because we do not use the same format as them. They were DC balanced and did not use black level for synchronization. And we are using   just normal NTSC with normal sync. So it's DC compensation. Then it will move it, that's totally normal. I have you. Go ahead, get out? Yes, the image goes. Neil, can you turn on the TV please? Oh, thanks Neil. I think we can see some

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of your control panel. That's this one here. That's a good way to do the control panel.

So if we use the scope at the same time, I wonder if we see any interference. The range is in PM, so it won't do anything. You can activate the range. Should I turn on the PM transmitter? Uh, PM is shooting towards a charge, that should be fine. There is MP, then rank. Yes. It doesn't do anything. Well, I'm surprised! This is just a normal NTSC TV, not even a slow scan. And that's fantastic. Wow! So all we have to do is get Adam Savage on the phone so we can do a fake moon landing (laughs).

Well, that's pretty good. I am enthusiastic. Say something that someone can remember. "One small step for CuriousMarc, but..." ...one giant leap for YouTube. A big leap for microwave communications. Alright, that's all, I guess. We should look towards the Earth. Earth Uprising! So here we go, we have the rise of the Earth. Live from the moon! Right here, it's live from the moon. Except it's your shirt! (laughter). We are the official NASA studies. That's how it is! We really don't need to go back to the moon. Now we have very good deep fake videos, so why go there?

Maybe that's how they faked the moon landing. They just put it on a t-shirt (laughs). Very good! Wow, that's pretty good. And while I wasn't looking, some strange things started happening in my fake moon landing study that I can't even explain. Well, we didn't get to the color

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in this episode, so we'll leave it for the next one. Until then! (Music by Rick Astley)