[time-nuts] manuals, anyone?

[Will Matney]

Didier,

I've been on your website, and it is a good one. Great job, and thanks for
the manuals I've downloaded.

Best,

Will

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On 8/4/2011 at 7:24 PM shalimr9 at gmail.com wrote:

>I have about 25 GB of manuals on my web site www.ko4bb.com, with new
uploads almost daily, and unlimited storage space. Feel free to upload to
your heart content :)
>
>Didier KO4BB
>
>Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless thingy while I do other things...
>
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>Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 16:39:05 
>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency
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>	Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
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>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] manuals, anyone?
>
>I used BAMA as an example. If there really is a problem storing manuals
online, it wouldn't be difficult to start a similar website. 
>
>I'm going to check with a contact I have at archive.org to see if they
want to store manuals. 
>
>I have over 20GB of manuals on my desktop. 
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dave M" <dgminala at mediacombb.net>
>Sender: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
>Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:08:46 
>To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
>	<time-nuts at febo.com>
>Subject: Re: [time-nuts] manuals, anyone?
>
>>> I think a simple solution is anyone that gets a free manual has to
>>> scan it and upload it to BAMA or some other free manual website.
>>
>> Nice in theory. Unlikely to work in practice, IMO.
>>
>> BAMA is a laudible effort, but in practice many documents aree not
>> well scanned and some are nearly useless.
>>
>>> It is unrealistic to expect one person to scan filing cabinets worth
>>> of manuals, but to spread the task around makes sense.
>>
>> Dave has done it.
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> -John
>
>BAMA is kinda strange nowadays.  According to the note on the edebris
mirror 
>page, the main BAMA site has been down for "repairs and upgrades" since 
>9/17/2009; almost 2 years ago.  Will the main site ever come back online,
or 
>has it been written off permanently?
>Also, as I remember, there was a note somewhere on the site that the 
>owner(s) of the BAMA site were no longer accepting manuals for test 
>equipment... only real "boat anchors" such as tube type radios, ham gear, 
>etc.  Am I remembering correctly, or was there a different restriction or 
>has the restriction been removed?  I know that I tried to upload a couple 
>Tektronix manuals that I had scanned, but they never showed up on the
site.
>
>David
>dgminala at mediacombb dot net
>
>
>
>
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