diff --git a/docs/src/content/docs/explanation/virtual-agc.mdx b/docs/src/content/docs/explanation/virtual-agc.mdx index b52f765..eed9f3d 100644 --- a/docs/src/content/docs/explanation/virtual-agc.mdx +++ b/docs/src/content/docs/explanation/virtual-agc.mdx @@ -287,3 +287,5 @@ The GNU Radio wrapper (`agc_bridge` block) exposes three message ports: `uplink_ ## Hardware restoration While gr-apollo works with the Virtual AGC *emulator*, others have gotten the real hardware running. [CuriousMarc (Marc Verdiell)](https://www.curiousmarc.com/space), along with Mike Stewart, [Ken Shirriff](https://www.righto.com/search/label/Apollo), and a team of volunteers, have restored actual Apollo Guidance Computers and S-Band telecommunications equipment to operational status. Their work provides invaluable validation that the specifications gr-apollo implements match the behavior of real flight hardware. + +Of particular interest: [Building an Apollo transmit station with Keysight instruments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNmYFfxI7w) shows modern Keysight signal generators and analyzers driving the same S-Band uplink chain that gr-apollo models in software. [Inside the WILD Lab of CuriousMarc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwocVH3_1Eo) is a Keysight-produced tour of the lab where the restoration work happens. diff --git a/docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/introduction.mdx b/docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/introduction.mdx index 162620e..fecce18 100644 --- a/docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/introduction.mdx +++ b/docs/src/content/docs/getting-started/introduction.mdx @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ gr-apollo is based on these primary sources: ### Community -- [CuriousMarc (Marc Verdiell)](https://www.curiousmarc.com/space) — Marc and his team (Mike Stewart, Ken Shirriff, and others) have been restoring and operating original Apollo S-Band flight hardware. Their [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc) documents the restoration process in detail. +- [CuriousMarc (Marc Verdiell)](https://www.curiousmarc.com/space) — Marc and his team (Mike Stewart, Ken Shirriff, and others) have been restoring and operating original Apollo S-Band flight hardware. Their [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousMarc) documents the restoration process in detail — see [Building an Apollo transmit station with Keysight instruments](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctNmYFfxI7w) for a look at how modern test equipment talks to 1960s flight hardware. - [Ken Shirriff's Blog](https://www.righto.com/search/label/Apollo) — detailed reverse-engineering posts on Apollo-era hardware, from AGC core rope memory to the USB signal processing chains. ## Next step