June 2005 Publication Notes

This PDF version of the RCA Ground-Commanded Television Assembly Interimn Final Report was produced by Bill Wood using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Acrobat 7 Pro. This report includes changes made to the GCTA after Apollo 15. The source was an original copy of the report provided by Bill Perry, the MSC television engi-neer who conceived the system in 1970. Each page was scanned using an Epson Ex-pression 636 scanner using Lasersoft Silverfast AI scanning software. Final page cleanup and production was done using Photoshop CS2. Composition was accom-plished using Microsoft Word 2002. It was converted to PDF using Acrobat 7 Pro. Bill Wood was a Unified S-Band Lead Engineer at the Goldstone Apollo MSFN sta-tion during the lunar missions. He was primarily responsible for the development of the MSFN Subcarrier Cancellation Unit that enabled the full video bandwidth of the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 color television downlink to be recovered.

I-12

II-6

III-2