Quizzy "8"

Lucky guess Rusty

Only other thing I can think they'd send is some kind of radio or tv signal 

Well you're just about there Andy, so well done.

Parkes was used to transmit pictures when the moon was in the Southern Hemisphere. In the film The Dish which was a comedy take on the events leading up to the moon landing they actually lost contact with Apollo 11 and had to re plot everything from scratch. 

When Buzz Aldrin switched on the TV camera on the Lunar Module, three tracking antennas received the signals simultaneously. They were the 64 metre Goldstone antenna in California, the 26 metre antenna at Honeysuckle Creek near Canberra in Australia, and the 64 metre dish at Parkes.

In the first few minutes of the broadcast, NASA alternated between the signals being received from its two stations at Goldstone and Honeysuckle Creek, searching for the best quality picture.

A little under nine minutes into the broadcast, the TV was switched to the Parkes signal. The quality of the TV pictures from Parkes was so superior that NASA stayed with Parkes as the source of the TV for the remainder of the 2.5 hour broadcast. 

Over to you  

never knew there was a film about that nd the moon landing was before my time I wasa playing call of duty on xbox and theres a big radar dish on there, as I walked past it I had a flash of genius so killed the game to get back on here lol

Right I was born in Staffordshire in the 19th century and after leaving school I worked with trains

Interesting how you got there 

Staffordshire and trains, two things I know little about. The only person I can think of at the moment from Staffordshire is Josiah Wedgwood, he's wrong century and wrong profession.

Thinking cap on then. 

Sorry Rusty incorrect

I died aged 42 but before my death I was made a CBE