Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
think CAP COM, 'alone, would have been sufficient .
One further comment , I had to turn my ·11HF volume
all the way up to hear anybody.
I was at max.
There we were sitting right on the pad , talking
to a gu:y two miles away, and there I was with the
volume full up . It didn ' t give me much confi­
dence as to reception I was going to get when I
was 200 miles away , or three or four or five
hundred miles away .
I thought that the volume
control on the radio was inadequate.
We were wondering what we were going to have when
we got up a hundred miles.
That's right.
At max volume we didn't have enough
and at minimum volume it didn't shut it off.
We
will cover this later.
1.3 Crew Participation and Countdown
McDivitt
I think it was just about right .
I don' t think
we were over worked and I think we had enough to
do to keep us busy.
White
Actually, all we really made was a check of
switches .
There wasn ' t really too much else.
Having the back-up crew run that midcount was the
the right solution.
I wouldn't have wanted to
participate in anymore of t he countdown than I
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