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**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 2:24 pm Post subject: Do you want to go to the moon?

Would you like to record the video?

How's this for cool old reel-to-reel?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Introduced-December-1962-Extremely-Rare-AMPEX-VR-660-VTR-B-W-Video-Recorder-600/182696338060?hash=item2a898ce28c:g:7tsAAOSwOgdYw5kx

**kal** · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 3:35 am Post subject:

I don't get the moon reference?

Kal

P.S. Yes. I'd like to go to the moon.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 3:40 am Post subject:

Whoops, right. In th auction he talks about this model being owned installed on Apollo 11 by NASA during the Moon landings.

"Apollo 11 NASA installed a VR-660 VTR Recorder"

**kal** · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 12:24 pm Post subject:

Interesting! I couldn’t believe they’d install something so heavy in the LM not to mention that they simply broadcast from the moon (no recording) so I had to look it up.... from Wikipedia:

“ For Apollo 11, NASA installed a VR-660 as part of a slow-scan video system for recording at Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station in Australia. The slow-scan television video transmitted from Apollo 11 had a resolution of 250 TV lines at 10 frames per second, which was then converted using equipment at the tracking station to standard 525-line 30-frame-per-second NTSC video, and then recorded to the VR-660. “

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampex_2_inch_helical_VTR

Kal

CIR Engineering · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:29 am Post subject:

Man, that is cool!

craigr

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2018 2:36 am Post subject:

CIR Engineering · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2018 12:57 am Post subject: