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From: Germany
Registered: Dec 2003

posted 07-25-2011 09:07 AM               

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I asked the late Stan Lebar, project manager for the lunar TV camera Westinghouse and he was adamant it was _not_ the cable, or anything remotely resembling a cable used for the WEC TV camera. The biggest giveaway was that the WEC cable was white, and that there were no leftovers. Save your money. The sellers have been listing this item for years now.

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Dwight Steven-Boniecki
author "Live TV From the Moon"

Posts: 542
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003

posted 07-26-2011 06:02 PM               

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Mike, this coaxial cable (with an outer Kapton layer) was one of a series developed by the Rockbestos-Surprenant Cable Corp. in 1966 and sold to Grumman for routing video in the LM's communications system, but as Stan Lebar said, it was not used to connect to the TV camera itself.

In an October 1969 company newsletter, the firm (and the eBay seller) says it was used to "transmit" TV signals from the LM during Apollo 11; but neither mentions the camera.

This company also developed a different cable used on Apollo 12 and subsequent missions to deliver power from the SNAP-27 nuclear power source to the ALSEP central data collection system.