Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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than I was.
You were communicating during the
FNA work and also after I went to sleep. I heard
you working on the Communications Check and that's
when you went to the reentry antenna.
That's right, when we ran through these checks,
it finally became apparent to everyone that the
reentry antenna was doing a better job than the
adapter .antenna.
And then later on, I switched
back to the adapter antenna for some reason which
I can't remember right now.
We ran a couple of
more checks and it seemed to be-­
I know what we did.
We ran an HF check, Jim, and
we switched back to the a~apter so we could use
the HF antenna back there .
We got just as good
U1IF transmissions at this time as we did on the
r.eentry a.ntenna.
When they checked them out again, they said they
still thought the stub antenna was better. So, we
went back to :reentry antenna.
We used r .eentry just about 95 percent of the
flight.
That's right. In the last 55 orbits it was great.
In the first eight it was lousy. I was really