Why doesn't Aldrin suggest they turn the rendezvous radar on? ...Why Kiwi9????
Sigh!
When addressing posts to me, would you please keep your childish ad homs and name-calling out of them? I much prefer that you act like you are something over ten years old.
If you weren't so stunningly ignorant about Apollo, you could have gone to the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and under "Background Material" looked up the entry called "LM Checklists", then gone down to the period more than 90 minutes before liftoff and noted that there is a whole raft of checklists for the various procedures to be followed, and two of those specifically refer to the rendezvous radar.
Sur-48, State Vector Update (15k .gif)
Sur-49, 122:03, Tig-2:20 (16k .gif)
Sur-50, Gravity Alignment (19k .gif)
Sur-51, Rendezvous Radar (18k .gif)
Sur-52, RCS Tests (21k .gif)
Sur-53, AGS Calibration (17k .gif)
Sur-54, 122:53, Tig-1:30, Ascent Pads (17k .gif)
Sur-55, Final P57 (11k .gif)
Sur-56, P57 Continued (16k .gif)
Sur-57, Rendezvous Radar Warm-up (17k .gif)
And, quite frankly, those procedures look to me just a wee tad more complex than your childishly simplistic notions and your "If I ran the zoo" fallacies about how such things should be done.
You've noted that one says "Tig-1:30" have you? Ninety minutes before liftoff?
So perhaps you should tell us, Patrick1000, why on earth anyone might have suggested turning on the rendezvous radar earlier in the mission, when there are obviously many things that had to be done in conjunction with that. Remember too, that it was the rendezvous radar that caused the 1201 and 1202 alarms on the way down to the surface.
I remind you, it is you who is utterly incredulous that Buzz Aldrin didn't suggest turning the radar on previously, and I'd suggest that because Buzz Aldrin might have known a little bit more about it than you do, that is the explanation.
After checking out the checklists, you could have also gone to the last section of the Apollo 11 ALSJ, "The Return to Orbit", and read about what they did at the time, and how they went through those checklists. In fact, if you simply did a search for "radar" you would find a great deal of information about it.
If you did these things, you might just find that, as usual, it is indeed a little more complex an affair than the simplistic one you have in mind due to your ignorance.
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Finally, while we're on this very subject, could you please answer my queries that you've been ignoring:
In your own words, Patrick1000, please tell us your understanding of the following:
1. How the rendezvous radar was turned on so that Reed could do what he claimed.
2. The length of time between Frank Borman becoming ill and Chuck Berry talking to the Apollo 8 crew.
Perhaps you could also say whether you think the Apollo 8 crew could have cleaned up the cabin before Berry spoke to them, and whether you think they had to clean up bucketsful that were splattered everywhere, or just a few relatively minor globs of goo.
Please also tell us what was said during that discussion between Berry and the crew, and give us all the information you have on what the medical people in Mission Control discussed, particularly their diagnosis of Borman's illness.