Let's get things clear. There were no communications satellites circa 1970 as we have now, so I'm glad you didn't try to insert that into NASA’s “lunar logistics”.
The problem is the Apollo 17 footage of a fake toy held up by tension wires in a studio footage that was pawned off on the American people at a time before the internet and consumer video recording devices such as Betamax/VSH tape standards.
Take another look at this Apollo 17 footage. BTW, how did the astronauts’ audio “voice over” get mixed over this footage? What were the logistics for that? LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs
In fact, the advent of VCRs, the consumer video recording machine was simultaneous with the death of NASA’s Apollo program...we never were to “return to the moon” once Americans were able to personally record TV programs. Coincidence? (LOL!)
There were no coaxial cable networks in the early 70’s. On a globe earth model, radio waves are restricted by the problem of line-of-sight transmission..
...so the “lunar (or lunatic) logistics” of exactly HOW NASA transmitted footage purportedly from the moon to the earth and back within 1.2 seconds to enable them to remote control the cameras on the Lunar Rover Dune Buggy...
... how the lunar footage wss transmitted is as newsworthy of a story now as it would have been then.
How “moon footage” was transmitted is still a big news story.
It's still a huge mystery as to how NASA, in Houston, could have remote-controlled the Apollo 17 lift off footage from the flimsy broadcasting equipment that was left on the moon, that needed to run off batteries.
Using circa 1970 technology.
And all done in 1.2 seconds.
And that's “round trip”... from moon to earth and back to the moon again. 238,000 miles times two.
Utilizing the flimsy “transceiver” dish that was strapped to the Lunar Rover (golf cart).
That's half a billion miles.
In 1.2 seconds, in order for the footage to be sent from the lunar rover's camera's TV uplink transmitters...
... to Australia where the footage is converted to broadcast standard...
... then the footage is (as you said) microwaved internationally to Houston (though your map didn't show international microwave towers) — or via AT&T's c. 1960’s era phonelines —
So the logistical starting point is:
1. The video transmitter on the Lunar Rover to...
2. The “tracking station” TV downlink receiver in Austrailia
3. Australia converts the image to broadcast standard
4 Australia sends the footage to Houston/NASA via old fashioned 1960’s era phone lines or mysterious microwave towers in the ocean...
5. NASA remote controls the lunar camera off this received footage..
6. NASA sends the remote signalling back to Australia along the same mysterious international phone lines or microwave towers
7. Australia takes the remote control signal for the Lunar analog color video camera strapped to the Lunar rover and Uplinks the video signal through their TV transmitter dish to go back to the "moon" 8. (is the Aussie 200 foot wide dish also a transmitter or only a receiving dish? LOL... it was torn down and raised in 1981)...
9. Video remote control signal for the mechanical motorized “xoom” arm and “tilt” mechanism on the analog camera is activated from the signal received from Australia via a flimsy “receiver” box behind the aluminum folding chairs strapped to the Lunar Rover?
And all of this happens in 1.2 seconds? LOL!!!????
This is idiotic. None of this makes any sense, using c 1970 technology, and especially c. 1970 battery technology for all of this video transmission Uplinking and video transmission Downlinking from Houston/Australia on the Lunar Rover.
And this is why NASA has been so ridiculed, even in the comments section on the Apollo 17 “moon footage”...
(Honestly, this looks like 35mm or 16mm film to me that has been repeatedly kinescoped in a loop. Someone needs to breakdown the footage, because analog color video cameras from 1970 did not capture the same sort of details as film.)
"Really? LOL... That STILL doesn't explain the 1.5 second remote control relay (across half a BILLION miles) to the toy “Apollo 17” fakery here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs
238,000 x 2 is not a half billion miles, even in retard math.