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Laport's "Radio Antenna Engineering" available
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/ -- 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! |
Behold, Dave Platt scribed on tube chassis:
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/ All I saw was Bit Torrent. Do you have a real link to the PDF? -- Gregg "t3h g33k" http://geek.scorpiorising.ca *Ratings are for transistors, tubes have guidelines* |
"Dave Platt" wrote in message
... 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/ -- 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! Thanks for your effort Dave. Very interesting text. Regards, Frank |
On Sun, 22 May 2005 07:55:09 -0700, Wes Stewart
wrote: Wow. Thanks Dave! I'll have to find someone with a faster connection than my 28K dial-up to fetch it for me, but great job. Wes N7WS Its on it way Wes - check you email. Danny, K6MHE |
Dan Richardson k6mhatarrl wrote:
Wes Stewart wrote: I'll have to find someone with a faster connection than my 28K dial-up to fetch it for me, but great job. Its on it way Wes - check you email. Is 28k email any faster? :-) -- 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 =---- |
Dave:
Excellent contribution... I am interested, did you use fine reader for scanning or another? And, did you use adobe to create the .pdf or other free software? Is the .pdf text searchable (in text format) or not (in graphic format?) Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... 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/ -- 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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John Smith wrote: I am interested, did you use fine reader for scanning or another? And, did you use adobe to create the .pdf or other free software? Is the .pdf text searchable (in text format) or not (in graphic format?) The work was done using only noncommercial (freely-distributable) software tools... the SANE scanning software, NETPBM image-processing programs, The GIMP for manual image processing, and GPL GhostScript to create the PDFs. I wrote a bunch of custom scripts to perform some higher-level functions (e.g. automatically levelling, centering, and "bleaching" the pages). The text is not searchable. I don't have access to OCR software which can do the job with acceptable accuracy, nor the time required to proofread the whole book and correct the inevitable errors. The PDF text is all in graphic format. -- 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! |
.... shame, searchable text is nice... I have finereader, what is the
graphic format of the scanned pages... perhaps it can work with that? Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... In article , John Smith wrote: I am interested, did you use fine reader for scanning or another? And, did you use adobe to create the .pdf or other free software? Is the .pdf text searchable (in text format) or not (in graphic format?) The work was done using only noncommercial (freely-distributable) software tools... the SANE scanning software, NETPBM image-processing programs, The GIMP for manual image processing, and GPL GhostScript to create the PDFs. I wrote a bunch of custom scripts to perform some higher-level functions (e.g. automatically levelling, centering, and "bleaching" the pages). The text is not searchable. I don't have access to OCR software which can do the job with acceptable accuracy, nor the time required to proofread the whole book and correct the inevitable errors. The PDF text is all in graphic format. -- 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! |
On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:38:16 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote: Dan Richardson k6mhatarrl wrote: Wes Stewart wrote: I'll have to find someone with a faster connection than my 28K dial-up to fetch it for me, but great job. Its on it way Wes - check you email. Is 28k email any faster? :-) Did I say anything about an attachment? 28K is fast enough for a personal note. |
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John Smith wrote: ... shame, searchable text is nice... I have finereader, what is the graphic format of the scanned pages... perhaps it can work with that? The original scans are 300 dpi grayscale, PGM (portable graymap) format. Easily translated to TIFF. The data in the PDF itself is 300 dpi one-bit-deep black&white data, compressed... converted from the grayscale data via thresholding. -- 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! |
Well, will have to play with this awhile... never attempted to use
finereader with existing scans... and not having much luck working something out--I expected it to be more straight-forward... Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... In article , John Smith wrote: ... shame, searchable text is nice... I have finereader, what is the graphic format of the scanned pages... perhaps it can work with that? The original scans are 300 dpi grayscale, PGM (portable graymap) format. Easily translated to TIFF. The data in the PDF itself is 300 dpi one-bit-deep black&white data, compressed... converted from the grayscale data via thresholding. -- 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! |
Dave:
Are you familiar with microsoft reader... it reads ebooks in something of a "paperback style." I am not sure if there is a counterpart in the Linux world... are you dual boot? Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... In article , John Smith wrote: ... shame, searchable text is nice... I have finereader, what is the graphic format of the scanned pages... perhaps it can work with that? The original scans are 300 dpi grayscale, PGM (portable graymap) format. Easily translated to TIFF. The data in the PDF itself is 300 dpi one-bit-deep black&white data, compressed... converted from the grayscale data via thresholding. -- 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! |
On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:52:48 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote: --I expected it to be more straight-forward... For Pete's sake. You're getting something for free and then bitching about it. Sheeeeeeeee |
I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even
contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about one-meg would be more useful... Warmest regards, John "Dan Richardson arrl net" k6mhatdot wrote in message ... On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:52:48 -0700, "John Smith" wrote: --I expected it to be more straight-forward... For Pete's sake. You're getting something for free and then bitching about it. Sheeeeeeeee |
.... or, rather, to about one-meg+ in size...
John "John Smith" wrote in message ... I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about one-meg would be more useful... Warmest regards, John "Dan Richardson arrl net" k6mhatdot wrote in message ... On Sun, 22 May 2005 17:52:48 -0700, "John Smith" wrote: --I expected it to be more straight-forward... For Pete's sake. You're getting something for free and then bitching about it. Sheeeeeeeee |
Dave:
Are you familiar with microsoft reader... it reads ebooks in something of a "paperback style." Not familiar with it, don't really care to be. I have a policy of avoiding the use of Microsoft software on my systems except when no decent alternative exists. I am not sure if there is a counterpart in the Linux world... Adobe Acrobat Reader has a "continuous, facing" display option - pairs of pages side by side - which I suspect is close to the "paperback style" to which you refer. Works fine with the PDFs I'm distributing. are you dual boot? No, I don't trust that mode, for a couple of reasons. Some M$ operating systems are known to rather aggressively overwrite or destroy other OS's partitions or boot blocks, sometimes without asking or warning. And, given all of the security exploits against Windows and Explorer and etc. floating around, I feel safer not allowing Windows to have direct access to my hardware. I do occasionally run Windows (usually Win98) in a VmWare virtual machine, with a virtualized hard drive, for things like tax software, ham-radio programming utilities, etc.. That way, it's running safely in user mode, can't get to the real hardware, and I can wipe it and start over from a checkpoint save without affecting the rest of my system. -- 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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John Smith wrote: I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about one-meg would be more useful... Getting it down to 1 meg would necessarily sacrifice almost all of the detail in the photographs - they'd be unviewable. 1 meg might be enough space for the text, and possibly for the black&white charts and line drawings (as bitmaps) but the photos would be lost. -- 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! |
For Pete's sake. You're getting something for free and then
bitching about it. ========================= "For Pete's sake" is an interesting American exclamation. How did it arise? Did it arise in the 1930's? Any connection with the villain Pegleg Pete who appeared in Mickey Mouse cartoons of that era? ---- Reg. |
The pics would be converted to .jpeg... the text, in an efficient ebook
format, would be held compressed--very small... I did say one-meg+, I was thinking about the pics (graphics) when I included the '+'... black and white compresses very small, gray scale not as well... still, 33 megs is HUGE! I don't see it being any larger then 3 megs at worst case... 1/10 is good... Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... In article , John Smith wrote: I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about one-meg would be more useful... Getting it down to 1 meg would necessarily sacrifice almost all of the detail in the photographs - they'd be unviewable. 1 meg might be enough space for the text, and possibly for the black&white charts and line drawings (as bitmaps) but the photos would be lost. -- 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! |
Ahhhh, a "Linux Warrior" serving in the Linux Army seeking world conquest...
Probably about 90%+ (at the very least 80%) of all computer users are windows based... I simply think of the biggest audience (greatest good-greatest number, America used to be like that--I miss it...) I go between Linux and Windows as necessary, my recreation machine is Slackware based (mp3s, movies, personal coding, etc...) ... Mac I avoid (but, they can run Linux)... those guys (Mac'ers) are worse then Bill when it comes to proprietary rights and control... ..pdf is great, but huge... I thought you were more interested in the free sharing of info than fighting operating system wars... nothing wrong with either... both serve a purpose--but best done one at a time... Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... Dave: Are you familiar with microsoft reader... it reads ebooks in something of a "paperback style." Not familiar with it, don't really care to be. I have a policy of avoiding the use of Microsoft software on my systems except when no decent alternative exists. I am not sure if there is a counterpart in the Linux world... Adobe Acrobat Reader has a "continuous, facing" display option - pairs of pages side by side - which I suspect is close to the "paperback style" to which you refer. Works fine with the PDFs I'm distributing. are you dual boot? No, I don't trust that mode, for a couple of reasons. Some M$ operating systems are known to rather aggressively overwrite or destroy other OS's partitions or boot blocks, sometimes without asking or warning. And, given all of the security exploits against Windows and Explorer and etc. floating around, I feel safer not allowing Windows to have direct access to my hardware. I do occasionally run Windows (usually Win98) in a VmWare virtual machine, with a virtualized hard drive, for things like tax software, ham-radio programming utilities, etc.. That way, it's running safely in user mode, can't get to the real hardware, and I can wipe it and start over from a checkpoint save without affecting the rest of my system. -- 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! |
Reg:
How come no email from you? Warmest regards, John "Reg Edwards" wrote in message ... For Pete's sake. You're getting something for free and then bitching about it. ========================= "For Pete's sake" is an interesting American exclamation. How did it arise? Did it arise in the 1930's? Any connection with the villain Pegleg Pete who appeared in Mickey Mouse cartoons of that era? ---- Reg. |
Reg Edwards wrote:
"For Pete's sake" is an interesting American exclamation. Actually, sake is Japanese rice wine. Pete must be the importer. -- 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! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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 Warmest regards, John "Cecil Moore" wrote in message ... Reg Edwards wrote: "For Pete's sake" is an interesting American exclamation. Actually, sake is Japanese rice wine. Pete must be the importer. -- 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! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= East/West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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Dave Platt wrote: | In article , | John Smith wrote: | | I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even | contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats | for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about | one-meg would be more useful... | | Getting it down to 1 meg would necessarily sacrifice almost all of the | detail in the photographs - they'd be unviewable. 1 meg might be | enough space for the text, and possibly for the black&white charts and | line drawings (as bitmaps) but the photos would be lost. The reason it's 33 MB and not 1 MB is because the .pdf file is basically a bunch of pictures, one of each page. That's also why it's not searchable, and why you can't cut and paste text out of it. 33 MB is on the small side for books scanned like this. In comparison, the Bible is only 1.34 MB in size in text format after being compressed (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10) -- and it's a big book. Even War and Peace is only 1.16 MB (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600). In order to get it under 1 MB, you'd generally have to use some sort of OCR software to convert the picture of text into text. I presume there would also be some pictures, and they'd have to be stored as pictures, of course. Unfortunately, good OCR software is hard to find, and I know of no software that could take a book, scan it, convert it to text and images as appropriate, and do it accurately enough that a human wouldn't need to proofread the entire document carefully. And that is a very large job. The reason it's available with BitTorrent is because that allows lots of people to download it relatively quickly without totally sucking up his bandwidth. It may be a bit more work to download than something that's just a link on a web page, but it works nicely once set up. In any event, scanning and distributing out of copyright books like this is a worthy endeavor. Thank you! Looks like there's a few other radio related works on Project Gutenberg. Go to `http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/search' and search for `radio' for a list. None seem to cover antennas specifically, but ` The Radio Amateur's Hand Book' looks interesting. -- Doug McLaren, To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. |
Fine Reader has no equal, still must be proof read, but I am always
surprised how accurate it is, when pages have been scanned at high enough pixels... 200 is good, 300+ is excellent... it is smart and knows pictures when it sees them... all this is easy to suck into word and put a book together rather quickly... microsoft provides a FREE (what was Bill thinking!) plugin for Microsoft Word which will construct a .lit ebook from any word doc and presto... you have a ebook of excellent format--and even with pics--small... The guys on the #ebooks chan on the undernet servers of IRC used to provide such books and info on how to create them--it is where I picked it up at... they create books in all formats... but for quality and size, .lit is what appeared best to me... microsoft provides a FREE (what was Bill thinking?--again!) reader to read them, called "Microsoft Reader." Warmest regards, John "Doug McLaren" wrote in message . .. In article , Dave Platt wrote: | In article , | John Smith wrote: | | I don't think you grasp what is being done here... I am not even | contemplating using it... but transforming it into other formats | for others use... 33 megs is pretty big for a book... down about | one-meg would be more useful... | | Getting it down to 1 meg would necessarily sacrifice almost all of the | detail in the photographs - they'd be unviewable. 1 meg might be | enough space for the text, and possibly for the black&white charts and | line drawings (as bitmaps) but the photos would be lost. The reason it's 33 MB and not 1 MB is because the .pdf file is basically a bunch of pictures, one of each page. That's also why it's not searchable, and why you can't cut and paste text out of it. 33 MB is on the small side for books scanned like this. In comparison, the Bible is only 1.34 MB in size in text format after being compressed (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10) -- and it's a big book. Even War and Peace is only 1.16 MB (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600). In order to get it under 1 MB, you'd generally have to use some sort of OCR software to convert the picture of text into text. I presume there would also be some pictures, and they'd have to be stored as pictures, of course. Unfortunately, good OCR software is hard to find, and I know of no software that could take a book, scan it, convert it to text and images as appropriate, and do it accurately enough that a human wouldn't need to proofread the entire document carefully. And that is a very large job. The reason it's available with BitTorrent is because that allows lots of people to download it relatively quickly without totally sucking up his bandwidth. It may be a bit more work to download than something that's just a link on a web page, but it works nicely once set up. In any event, scanning and distributing out of copyright books like this is a worthy endeavor. Thank you! Looks like there's a few other radio related works on Project Gutenberg. Go to `http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/search' and search for `radio' for a list. None seem to cover antennas specifically, but ` The Radio Amateur's Hand Book' looks interesting. -- Doug McLaren, To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. |
On Mon, 23 May 2005 04:59:53 GMT, (Doug McLaren)
wrote: In comparison, the Bible is only 1.34 MB in size in text format after being compressed (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10) -- and it's a big book. Even War and Peace is only 1.16 MB (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600). Hi Doug, Also from Gutenberg (along with several dozen other titles) is my copy of Casanova's Memoires (which fits in my Palm Tungsten E as an ebook). It runs to 3.9 MB (about two feet of bookshelf space). No pictures by the way. 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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John Smith wrote: Ahhhh, a "Linux Warrior" serving in the Linux Army seeking world conquest... You might consider being a bit less quick to toss off those stereotypes, John. They can blind you more than they illuminate. Probably about 90%+ (at the very least 80%) of all computer users are windows based... I simply think of the biggest audience (greatest good-greatest number, America used to be like that--I miss it...) .... and all of those Windows users can, if they choose, view PDF documents. "Portable", y'know? The Adobe software is free, and works fine. What I'm not particularly interested in doing, is creating a non-portable (Windows-specific) version. Why restrict the usability? If you want to do so, go right ahead... as long as you comply with the simple "noncommercial, share and share alike" copyright terms on the PDF, you can create a further derivative work to suit yourself. I'll be curious how many tens, or hundreds of hours of work it takes to develop a suitably-high-quality textual representation of this book. Do let us know! I go between Linux and Windows as necessary, my recreation machine is Slackware based (mp3s, movies, personal coding, etc...) ... Mac I avoid (but, they can run Linux)... those guys (Mac'ers) are worse then Bill when it comes to proprietary rights and control... And that's pretty much why I stopped using (and developing software) for my Mac, put it into retirement, and switched to Linux. (Could have been a *BSD derivative, but there was a big two- or three-way war going on within the *BSD camp at the time). .pdf is great, but huge... By today's standards? I thought you were more interested in the free sharing of info than fighting operating system wars... I am. You raised the subject, and I simply answered the question to explain why I'm not personally interested in doing what you want. I've done what I set out to do - get this work back into public availability, in a useful form. If that form does not suit your desires, that's your issue, not mine, and you're free to correct the situation. -- 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! |
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... .lit just gets things a bit more right, the format is easier to read, and it provides "text to speech", it will read the book in audio for you--even the visually handicapped can "read" it... and it is all free to make and read... (well, you have to have MS Word access) 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... I was hoping the "bookworms" on Linux would have come up with a compatible reader for Linux for .lit--I haven't searched--but is an excellent format to just ignore for petty battles--however, MSs' rights on it may make this impossible... However, there are other routes to take too, one is .html, all platforms can read it and there are ebook creation tools which create to this format (pics can still be .jpeg's)--and can be read with any browser, ms word, the freeware star office for linux, html editors, etc... We live in the land of computers--no task is impossible--many roads all lead to the same destination(s)... a good broad picture of what is available is good to have... I am sure I have not been able to find all which is available... still got the eyes open... The ONLY "fault" I was finding is the size... download time... storage on disk (forget floppies, fill up a zip disk, cdrom quick with books that size, etc)... I did not intend for you to see my comments as a "slur", rather I respect your work and your contribution... and like I said on my first post here, THANKS!!! I think "Linux Warrior" is accurate... even your post I respond to here seems to mention and reinforce your commitment to Linux... no big deal... the corp. I work for does work in both Windows/Linux, I don't have an option to ignore one or the other, I have no real problems with Windows XP, Microsoft finally started doing something right... I came from the commandline prompt in UNIX, then to DOS... was shocked when Linux went GUI... but got used to it quickly... Nothing wrong with Linux Warriors... one of my best friends is a general in the army...grin I just think of myself as living in a "neutral country" (like Sweden) when it comes to religious and political commitments to an OS... Warmest regards, John "Dave Platt" wrote in message ... In article , John Smith wrote: Ahhhh, a "Linux Warrior" serving in the Linux Army seeking world conquest... You might consider being a bit less quick to toss off those stereotypes, John. They can blind you more than they illuminate. Probably about 90%+ (at the very least 80%) of all computer users are windows based... I simply think of the biggest audience (greatest good-greatest number, America used to be like that--I miss it...) ... and all of those Windows users can, if they choose, view PDF documents. "Portable", y'know? The Adobe software is free, and works fine. What I'm not particularly interested in doing, is creating a non-portable (Windows-specific) version. Why restrict the usability? If you want to do so, go right ahead... as long as you comply with the simple "noncommercial, share and share alike" copyright terms on the PDF, you can create a further derivative work to suit yourself. I'll be curious how many tens, or hundreds of hours of work it takes to develop a suitably-high-quality textual representation of this book. Do let us know! I go between Linux and Windows as necessary, my recreation machine is Slackware based (mp3s, movies, personal coding, etc...) ... Mac I avoid (but, they can run Linux)... those guys (Mac'ers) are worse then Bill when it comes to proprietary rights and control... And that's pretty much why I stopped using (and developing software) for my Mac, put it into retirement, and switched to Linux. (Could have been a *BSD derivative, but there was a big two- or three-way war going on within the *BSD camp at the time). .pdf is great, but huge... By today's standards? I thought you were more interested in the free sharing of info than fighting operating system wars... I am. You raised the subject, and I simply answered the question to explain why I'm not personally interested in doing what you want. I've done what I set out to do - get this work back into public availability, in a useful form. If that form does not suit your desires, that's your issue, not mine, and you're free to correct the situation. -- 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! |
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 =---- |
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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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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Tom Ring wrote: Trying to get the torrent with no success. And I know it should work, got Lineox Enterprise Linux with it recently. Odd, and interesting! I had a similar report from someone else last night. On the other hand, I just went to the link myself, fetched the torrent file, and my BitTorrent reference client launched itself and started a download of the -ebook version with no problems at all. What client are you using? Are you behind some sort of NAT gateway or other firewall? The tracker shows me three downloads in progress - my own (of the -ebook) and two others (of the -printer). I'm getting about half of the download bandwidth, though, so it may be that one of the transfers is stalled for some reason. -- 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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What client are you using? Are you behind some sort of NAT gateway or other firewall? The tracker shows me three downloads in progress - my own (of the -ebook) and two others (of the -printer). I'm getting about half of the download bandwidth, though, so it may be that one of the transfers is stalled for some reason. TorrentStorm, behind a NAT, but that has never been an issue before. tom K0TAR |
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