Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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with them in the water. The communications with Houston
via UHF were poor. Once we were on the drogue they kept
calling us asking us to confirm main chute. I' m not sure
they ever heard us conf irm main chute.
Lovell
I've often wondered about t hat . Watching the other apace­
craft come in, why they don't call; and I found out that
they do call but they ca..~•t get through.
Must be the
rel ay pl anet troubl e or something.
Borman
Communi cations with recovery forces on UHF was excel lent.
HF:
we ext en<ied the HT<' ant enna, put out HF­ DF t one for
awhil e. Again I am not sure if anyone picked it up or not .
We retracted it af ter i t had been up only 8 minutes , be­
cause of the fact that we did not want to get the HF
antenna broken of f during the recovery operation.
Lovell
There was no need for HF communications since we vere so
close to the recovery group.
Bonnan
The chopper was over us about 5 or 6 minutes after landi ng.
We had much better UHF communications, so, we di d not use
HF.
On point of impact, onboard data. Within the l i mits
of the readability of that scal e, it was excellent .
Down
range and cross range needles were fine.
We actually
ended up about 8 or 9 miles from the carrier. You just
can't get much finer infomation out of the down range and