Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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made one at 05+04+30+00.
I made another one at
03+01+45+00 , and we had another one at 04+22+40+00.
Out of those, two of them were in drifting flight,
and the other two were heads-up.
And I had this
recording that 11. 6 was equal to black sky and 16.8
was normally representative of earth background.
That was it. It was straightforward.
9, 3 SPADATS Tracking Check
Conrad
We did it. We did it by turning our beacon on so
they could just track us, but we, of course, didn't
get into it with the REP thing. The SPADATS thing,
actually, was supposed to take place during the REP
operation, and it didn ' t. But we did turn on our
beacon so SPADATS could track us one time over this
Willia.mtown site, or wherever it was. That's all
there was to it, so there was nothing to-- ­
9, 4
UHF Antenna Pattern Test
Conrad
Now, these UHF antenna pattern tests were done just
as written in the book and the data is recorded.
Do you want it?
FCSD Rep
Why don ' t you read it out?
Conrad
Okay.
We did a UHF sequence 03 at 01+10+44+25,
and the angles were 0°, 0° , 0° .
We did a sequence
01 at 02+13+47+05, and the angles were 90°, 0°, and
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