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John Smith wrote:
Dave, I said an excellent contribution on your part--few will do as much, here I just repeat what I have already said... Nothing wrong with .pdf, except it is too large... and in the case of all graphic content--not text searchable... So when are you going to stop talking and do it? Otherwise take what's available and stop whining and putting down other people choices (i.e. SHUT UP). 99% of us couldn't care less what your opinions are- as in "sharing them" - you've managed to insult and alienate many people here in a very short period of time. If that wasn't your intention - then I suggest you review your words and consider them from other's perspective. If it was your intention (as your overly broad slam against Mac users, seems to indicate -- and no , I'm NOT a Mac user)- then [plonk]. Not warmest regards - in fact with growing disdain... -- randy guttery A Tender Tale - a page dedicated to those Ships and Crews so vital to the United States Silent Service: http://tendertale.com |
"John",
Would you believe that even in the modern "me generation" some libraries still prefer that their patrons avoid cutting the back ribs from books? Dave did a really nice job of providing access to this book. The resulting PDF file is nowhere near the largest PDF file I have on my computer. And it is not even remotely in the same size category as the bloatware dispensed by M$. 73, Gene W4SZ John Smith wrote: .. .. I have access to a scanner which, if the back rib is cut off a book, and pages freed, scan a whole thick book in minutes--I have hand scanned books on my home scanner, a high speed scsi HP, and it does take a bit of time and effort--I am sure you did the same with the book you are speaking of, and know well that task... on a fast computer, conversion of a page by fine reader is seconds... it really just depends on how good the scanned images are... much less than 5 secs a page for good quality--scanned images... |
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Warmest regards, John "Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Rice wine? Only worse idea would be prune wine.. not even a shot of good whiskey can take the rank taste of rice wine away... frown I enjoy hot sake with my Chinese food. -- 73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Dave Platt wrote: An electronic (PDF) version of Edmund Laport's 1952 textbook "Radio Antenna Engineering" is now available for free download. Details may be found at: http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/Ra...naEngineering/ I've got reasonable bandwidth resources, so I've put up the 'printer' version as a straight PDF download, for those who don't have bittorrent available. http://www.r-bonomi.com/radio/ The server does impose limits on transfers -- it rate-limits that file to 16kbyte/second, so the download will take almost an hour. it will also allow no more than 4 simultaneous downloads. It gives a polite error, if the session limit is reached Enjoy! |
Well, gee, I was so enjoying the fact you were out there reading my posts,
what a disappointment now that you have went and dropped me in the old bit bucket... And, gee, I did come here just to sit around and idolize everyone... guess my coarse nature prevents that--oh well, we all have to work with some kind of handicap--guess we will all survive... Thanks for pointing out your opinion(s)--I will surely keep it/them in the back of my mind... perhaps at some future date it/they will be useful, no knowledge is without merit... Don't attribute more to me than I am capable of though, can't really take the credit for "alienating" anyone--they all have free wills and do as they please--really, I don't have that much control over people--it is really their strengths and weaknesses which limit or raise them to the heights they find themselves standing at... thanks for being so flattering though... unless you meant I should suffer others "control freak" natures--then I must decline... Since I have been in the exchange of text, here is this thread-all I have gotten is a list of won't work, shouldn't work, isn't supposed to work and might be illegal or offensive to "radio gods"-I don't work that way-indeed, if the purpose of this is to stop anything-it has exactly the opposite effect. I can tell from the lack of young and dynamic minds here that you have been successful, either by intention or not, at quelling all but conversations revolving around tried and true ideas and in the discussion and worship of ancient texts-which are obscure and difficult to obtain and hinder learning by those very facts. interesting way to "run a ship" but not very conductive to getting anything done. I think most tire of this and move on-leaving a bunch of grouchy old farts that wish to get back to worshiping some ancient ham/author that wrote a book/article a few decades ago. and not be bothered with having to think. not surprising that amateur radio reflects what is done/said here... and suffers for it. While this may please some-it does not please me-one must ignore this all and move on. if you or any others need "ego stroking" perhaps there is already such a newsgroup thread, or, one could be created. I am almost positive you will find what you want there-certainly, if not, you will be left alone there--most likely with others of your ilk--perhaps this will generate a need to start up a mutual admiration society, and another newsgroup thread will spring to life. Warmest regards, John Warmest regards, John "Randy or Sherry Guttery" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Dave, I said an excellent contribution on your part--few will do as much, here I just repeat what I have already said... Nothing wrong with .pdf, except it is too large... and in the case of all graphic content--not text searchable... So when are you going to stop talking and do it? Otherwise take what's available and stop whining and putting down other people choices (i.e. SHUT UP). 99% of us couldn't care less what your opinions are- as in "sharing them" - you've managed to insult and alienate many people here in a very short period of time. If that wasn't your intention - then I suggest you review your words and consider them from other's perspective. If it was your intention (as your overly broad slam against Mac users, seems to indicate -- and no , I'm NOT a Mac user)- then [plonk]. Not warmest regards - in fact with growing disdain... -- randy guttery A Tender Tale - a page dedicated to those Ships and Crews so vital to the United States Silent Service: http://tendertale.com |
Gene:
I have a mp3 CD (actually three--I just can't find anymore songs I wish to have) for my car player, there are almost 300 songs in mp3 format 112k bit rate... now each song stored in a "conventional manner" (wav format) would consume 40 megs each and just fitting 20 on a CD would be impossible--it is all what a person wants expects or is able to see the value of... at 3 megs each, many books will fit on one 650+ meg CD and be readable on almost every cdrom in the world... at 28+ to 33 megs few will fit and my collection of already unmanageable numbers of CDs will continue to grow at a speed which will bury me... .... how come everyone here thinks I want what they want--in most every case I have found I do not--surely others have noticed this... if I want something which can be purchased off a shelf, is what everyone else has--I'll simply go buy one! .... and how come the ones puzzled by this keep asking the same repetitive question(s), "Why do you want to do that?" If you know the reason do you think I will be any less likely to still want the answers I seek--if you do--your nature is not one of curiosity--it is for control--you wish to stop one from knowing/doing as they intend... don't be offended if others ignore this and move in the same directions anyway... I certainly am not offended by those who wish to stop or halt others--I realize they exist, have always existed--will continue to exist... I just don't care--and this is not those I seek... Warmest regards, John "Gene Fuller" wrote in message ... "John", Would you believe that even in the modern "me generation" some libraries still prefer that their patrons avoid cutting the back ribs from books? Dave did a really nice job of providing access to this book. The resulting PDF file is nowhere near the largest PDF file I have on my computer. And it is not even remotely in the same size category as the bloatware dispensed by M$. 73, Gene W4SZ John Smith wrote: . . I have access to a scanner which, if the back rib is cut off a book, and pages freed, scan a whole thick book in minutes--I have hand scanned books on my home scanner, a high speed scsi HP, and it does take a bit of time and effort--I am sure you did the same with the book you are speaking of, and know well that task... on a fast computer, conversion of a page by fine reader is seconds... it really just depends on how good the scanned images are... much less than 5 secs a page for good quality--scanned images... |
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Robert Bonomi wrote: I've got reasonable bandwidth resources, so I've put up the 'printer' version as a straight PDF download, for those who don't have bittorrent available. http://www.r-bonomi.com/radio/ Many thanks for doing that, Robert! If your server keeps stats, could you let me know how many downloads it sees over the next few weeks? I admit to being curious. FWIW, the BitTorrent tracker reports a total of 60 completed downloads so far - 21 of the smaller ebook version and 39 of the printer- optimized version. I find that to be a very satisfying response, for a day and a half of distribution of an admittedly obscure text... I'm glad so many people were interested. I'll be leaving the BitTorrent tracker and seeders running for the forseeable future. HTTP access is certainly more convenient for most folks, and for handling sporadic occasional downloading. I may shift my home system over to doing both sorts of distribution at some point in the future, when I'm fairly sure that the rush is over. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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In article , Robert Bonomi wrote: I've got reasonable bandwidth resources, so I've put up the 'printer' version as a straight PDF download, for those who don't have bittorrent available. http://www.r-bonomi.com/radio/ Many thanks for doing that, Robert! Thank you both - especially Dave, for taking all the trouble to produce such good-quality scans. -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK 'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB) http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek |
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Dave Platt wrote: In article , Robert Bonomi wrote: I've got reasonable bandwidth resources, so I've put up the 'printer' version as a straight PDF download, for those who don't have bittorrent available. http://www.r-bonomi.com/radio/ Many thanks for doing that, Robert! If your server keeps stats, could you let me know how many downloads it sees over the next few weeks? I admit to being curious. Of *course* it keeps stats. What fun would it be otherwise? grin In the 2-1/2 hours since I posted the notice, I've had 7 full downloads, and a couple of aborted ones. And one guy _did_ get turned away for a bit, because there were already 4 downloads running. :) Drop me an email to remind me, when you want to see the numbers. Note: I've got a psychic mail-server. The address on the postings _is_ valid, but it accepts mail *only* from inside a newsreader, in reply to an article I posted. Amazingly effective at eliminating 'spam'. :) The reject notice does provide a work-around, for those who need it, too. |
Dave Platt wrote:
An electronic (PDF) version of Edmund Laport's 1952 textbook "Radio Antenna Engineering" is now available for free download. Details may be found at: http://snulbug.mtview.ca.us/books/Ra...naEngineering/ Trying to get the torrent with no success. And I know it should work, got Lineox Enterprise Linux with it recently. tom K0TAR |
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