Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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receiving us. We were transmitting coming down on
the chute, on the main chute.
We made two steerage
transmissions and counts, and AIR BOSS received
these and acknowledged them and got the clears
on them.
After we were on the water, he apparently
was not receiving us.
Conrad
Okay, now, I found a mistake, and that is my fault
on the HF antenna.
I went down through the check­
list but I read this one item wrong.
I had all
three squib batteries off. I should have left the
No . 3 squib battery on. The antenna goes up on
the common control bus, so that is my fault that
the antenna didn't go· up.
Cooper
But, I thought I remembered when you put those off
was after we had already gone through all this.
Conrad
Well, I'm not sure that you are not right there,
but I still made the mistake of turning all three
squib batteries off. I'm sure that if it doesn't
go up with the squib batteries on, then there is
something wrong with the antenna, but if it goes
with the squib battery on, why it was my fault .
Cooper
But, in defense of Pete on this, I 'm almost sure
that we had already gone through all the sequence