![]() However, if I were looking for help, I'd start by doing a Google search based on Avid, which is the software that broadcast professionals use. That post makes it sound like you actually got the tape transferred, so I'm not sure what else you need to do. I see you have posted about this at :Īpollo 16 footage played on Ampex Quadruplex video reel VR-2000B Niels Heck, you live next door to Germany, while I am on the other side of the world, so I'm sure you have a lot more contacts that I would. Could you link me some broadcast forums, preferable with members at Germany, where I could ask for help? I think you would get a lot more useful feedback if you were to post in a broadcast forum. There are some amazing videos on YouTube made by people who have managed to get some of these up and running. Even when in perfect condition, they were a bear to operate. You'll need to find an expert to operate that machine. Here is something that an average Quadruplex recorder will look like: If you wish to contact me personally, PM me and ask me for an Email there. NASA has given third parties money for restoration efforts before, like the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project. Would anyone here be willing to lend their expertise, parts or perhaps an entire Quadruplex machine to a digitization effort? and possible machines for other formats, if the Apollo 11 audio was recorded on 1/4 or 1/2 inch audio reels. I also asked for photos, but that email has not been answered so far. I will post more information about the tapes as I receive more information. But I think every chance to digitize historically significant tapes should be taken before the tapes have decayed completely. The main reason why it has not been done already, is that NASA had bigger dishes and thus a better video feed anyway. I proposed a digitization effort, and have been told that the RCA VTR is indeed in a bad state and would need costly repairs. But I am sure other missions were recorded too, it was hinted. ![]() So far I know that they recorded video/audio from Apollo 16, and audio from Apollo 11. ![]() I have contacted some people at the radio station, and in September I will get in contact with someone who knows more about the tape archive. The reel was in a state of decay, as was the recorder. Someone who came there some years ago said he saw a RCA Quadruplex Video Tape Recorder (VTR) in bad shape, together with a two inch Quadruplex reel on display. After I have done some digging, and with some suggestions from other people, I have found a german radio station that at the time of Apollo received and recorded audio, biomedical telemetry and video from the moon. ![]()
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