Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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7.3 Communications
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thing that I didn ' t do was to take my helmet off
and stow it.
I did get my arm restraints down.
didn ' t put my drogue mortar pins in until I was
getting out , and I never did put my seat pin in.
It doesn ' t say on the checklist to put it in.
I put your seat pin in.
:lli put my seat pin in for me .
Now , we'd got all
the switches in the right positions, I think,
except one.
I forgot to put my FDI to the OFF
position.
I think all other switches were all right.
All
our pyrotechnics were safed.
I talked on UHF. I talked with Omnibus; and I
finally was talking to Inkspot 64, the helicopter.
I talked to him and I heard him, and we established
excellent UHF communications.
I heard Gus coming
through the auto cap two times, I think--very weak,
almost unintelligible.
I think he was asking how
we were, or if they had us yet .
I kept making
transmissions in the blind to him.
I don ' t think
he was ever getting any of them.
Ed operated the
HF , and what do you have to say about that?
Okay.
I put the antenna out and turned the HF on,
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