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

"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

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

"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.

"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

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

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

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

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

Kenneth Grimm wrote:
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


Hi Ken,

Considering the audience that BAMA has, I should think it would be very
easy to find a few "little elves" that could help you out with the mundane
tasks that such an archive requires. That is, after all, how Linux, and
all of the open source software got written.

-Chuck