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BAMA Notice
Notice: Effective January 1, 2007, BAMA will add only manuals with a
direct connection to the tube era of ham radio. Only manuals for amateur radio transmitters, receivers, antenna tuners, antennas, keyers, etc. will be added to the collection. The only test equipment that will be added will be those items already listed on the "Needed" list and those items created especially for the amateur radio market. While I appreciate all the contributions of those whose interest is in test equipment and military equipment, I simply cannot continue to expand the BAMA collection in these areas at this time. I will not be removing the test gear and military manuals currently on BAMA. The BAMA collection will remain intact. I just won't be adding to these areas for the time being. I want to thank any and all of you who are reading this and have contributed to the BAMA collection. Without your time and effort, BAMA would not have been possible. Thanks again and best wishes to all for the holidays. 73, Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr |
BAMA Notice
"Kenneth Grimm" wrote in message ... Notice: Effective January 1, 2007, BAMA will add only manuals with a direct connection to the tube era of ham radio. Only manuals for amateur radio transmitters, receivers, antenna tuners, antennas, keyers, etc. will be added to the collection. The only test equipment that will be added will be those items already listed on the "Needed" list and those items created especially for the amateur radio market. While I appreciate all the contributions of those whose interest is in test equipment and military equipment, I simply cannot continue to expand the BAMA collection in these areas at this time. I will not be removing the test gear and military manuals currently on BAMA. The BAMA collection will remain intact. I just won't be adding to these areas for the time being. I want to thank any and all of you who are reading this and have contributed to the BAMA collection. Without your time and effort, BAMA would not have been possible. Thanks again and best wishes to all for the holidays. 73, Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr I understand there may be a storage problem for the site. I, for one, have found the test equipment literature you have to be very valuable, much of it unobtainable elsewhere. I hope you will be able to reverse this policy in the future. The site is a unique resource and I thank you very much for it. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
BAMA Notice
Notice: Effective January 1, 2007, BAMA will add only manuals with a
direct connection to the tube era of ham radio. Only manuals for amateur radio transmitters, receivers, antenna tuners, antennas, keyers, etc. will be added to the collection. Why not also require that diagrams must be properly scanned. Many diagrams on the site can hardly be read. People tend to use lossy compression methods (jpg, djvu) that are generally unsuitable for schematic diagrams. Probably this is an heritage of times when hard disks had limited capacity and we were still using 56k modems. Today using djvu or other compression schemes makes little sense. For black and white, gif or png can give a perfect reproduction with no big files. 73 Tony I0JX |
BAMA Notice
"Antonio Vernucci" wrote in message ... Notice: Effective January 1, 2007, BAMA will add only manuals with a direct connection to the tube era of ham radio. Only manuals for amateur radio transmitters, receivers, antenna tuners, antennas, keyers, etc. will be added to the collection. Why not also require that diagrams must be properly scanned. Many diagrams on the site can hardly be read. People tend to use lossy compression methods (jpg, djvu) that are generally unsuitable for schematic diagrams. Probably this is an heritage of times when hard disks had limited capacity and we were still using 56k modems. Today using djvu or other compression schemes makes little sense. For black and white, gif or png can give a perfect reproduction with no big files. 73 Tony I0JX Some of us are still on dialup and a 10meg file takes forever to download. |
BAMA Notice
"shark45" wrote in message . .. "Antonio Vernucci" wrote in message ... Notice: Effective January 1, 2007, BAMA will add only manuals with a direct connection to the tube era of ham radio. Only manuals for amateur radio transmitters, receivers, antenna tuners, antennas, keyers, etc. will be added to the collection. Why not also require that diagrams must be properly scanned. Many diagrams on the site can hardly be read. People tend to use lossy compression methods (jpg, djvu) that are generally unsuitable for schematic diagrams. Probably this is an heritage of times when hard disks had limited capacity and we were still using 56k modems. Today using djvu or other compression schemes makes little sense. For black and white, gif or png can give a perfect reproduction with no big files. 73 Tony I0JX Some of us are still on dialup and a 10meg file takes forever to download. DejaVu seems to be the problem. It _does_ produce very small files but they are, as you state, of rather low quality. PDF's are much better but are 4 or 5 times the size even when set for fairly high compression. PDF's are quite satisfactory. I don't like multi page publications posted as a series of JPG's. They can, of course, be converted to a PDF for printing by using a program like PDFCreator. This is a small freeware program that appears as a printer. One prints the desired documents to it and it produces a PDF. I can understand Mr. Grimm's problem: he is moving, will not have a high-speed connection, and has limited time to oversee the site. I think this site is a tremendously valuable resource and he appears to be doing whatever he can to maintain it. I hope that in the future he will be able to return to offering test equipment manuals. I think we should appreciate what is there and the amount of work that has gone into creating and maintaining it. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
BAMA Notice
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:11:38 -0500, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
.....I simply cannot continue to expand the BAMA collection in these areas at this time.. snip Yet you repeatedly turned down my offers of big drives and pipes to mirror. Why? Gregg |
BAMA Notice
geek wrote:
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:11:38 -0500, Kenneth Grimm wrote: .....I simply cannot continue to expand the BAMA collection in these areas at this time.. snip Yet you repeatedly turned down my offers of big drives and pipes to mirror. Why? Gregg Good question I would like to see the answer to this also. This site is to valuable to the antique collector anymore to be on one server or even controlled my one person. How can sites like this be save for future generations that might find a need to use them. I hate to see this amount of effort go away for ever when one person get burned out or dies. Ron |
BAMA Notice
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:57:13 -0800, geek
wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:11:38 -0500, Kenneth Grimm wrote: .....I simply cannot continue to expand the BAMA collection in these areas at this time.. snip Yet you repeatedly turned down my offers of big drives and pipes to mirror. Why? Gregg Gregg, I have more storage capacity than I will ever need and I'm running the main site on a DS3. Thanks again for the offer, but I don't need any more big drives and pipes. I need more hours in a day. Ken K4XL *** BoatAnchor Manual Archive *** On the web at http://bama.sbc.edu and http://bama.edebris.com FTP site info: bama.sbc.edu login: anonymous p/w: youremailadr |
BAMA Notice
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:35:30 -0500, Kenneth Grimm wrote:
snip Gregg, I have more storage capacity than I will ever need and I'm running the main site on a DS3. Thanks again for the offer, but I don't need any more big drives and pipes. I need more hours in a day. LOL! Ok Ken, gotcha ;-) __ Gregg |
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