Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivltt
White
McDivitt
White
McDtvitt
from th~~1 on?
Now this wasn ' t representative
that we lost UHF No . 1 beca1lse w0 used bo:h of
the sets at different tiJWS throughout the
mj_ssion later 0:1 .
But at this particula:-:- time ,
UHP 1 didn ' t give us good reception 13:1d we
swit<~hed .
I thought comm t"li:-:at.i::ms through the fi1•-it :liv
of the flight wi;re atrocious .
They were
terrible .
Finally we switcht~d to th•) .-~~en~ry
St ub Antenna and that seemed to fix L!w p:>oblern.
I
Didn t you thL1k so?
But you know we went back
to reentry a n tenna, over Carna:::-vo:i one tine .
WH got just as good r~cept i ::>:1 o.ff of it that
ti.me as we di.d any other ti-:ne .
I remember when you were rnak i.ne- yo·.1r
Cornmuni catio:J.s Check.
That wa.1 ·.-.r1hm I was
ai:;leep.
You were ,;hecki :,1g the two and you
end<id up with the r eentry antenna.
Yes , later on in the flight , as I said, at the
end o.f the fi r.st d9-Y or :30.
We seemed t o get better communications .
fact , I
W'.:iS a little concerned that the
comm..micati.ons w1;re so lousy th~t W'; might h1we
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