In article rs.com,
mike flugennock writes
...Am I the only one here who's somehow underwhelmed by the clean,
fresh, pure, noise-free quindar tones? I think part of the excitement
of those little pings was knowing that some of them were being
transmitted from a quarter-million miles out by the first humans on the
Moon, so the clean, pure, "original" version -- devoid of any
background hiss or crackling or other long-distance xmission noise --
seems robbed of its excitement.
.. . .

Nit picking time: it was my understanding that Qundar tones were
transmitted only by ground equipment, not by the spacecraft.

Let's see. . .

ALSJ seems to agree with me:

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...j/quindar.html

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Jonathan Griffitts
AnyWare Engineering Boulder, CO, USA