[ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] The first and the last Q5'er, Gordon White article, 73 magazine

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

A URL for "Trackpads" please, John??

Mac, K2GKK/5



----Original Message Follows----
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
Reply-To: jfor at quik.com
To: Bill Pileggi <wpileggi at juno.com>
CC: arc5 at mailman.qth.net, milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ARC5] Re: [Milsurplus] The first and the last Q5'er,Gordon White 
article, 73 magazine
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:08:29 -0400

We'd be happy to put it on the Trackpads site,
-John



Bill Pileggi wrote:

 > I've just finished scanning Gordon White's 73 magazine article, "The 
First and the Last Q5'er" which appeared in the June, 1966 issue. It is good 
reading. I do not believe this article has been available before 
electronically. Several of his other articles are available on various 
websites, etc.
 >
 > I gave it the royal treatment, scanning in text and pictures separately, 
then combining in final product. All done at 300dpi. All pages then "cleaned 
up".  File size for the 4 page article is therefore 'somewhat' larger than 
might be usual. If anyone would like a copy, ask. PLEASE SPECIFY ZIP or PDF, 
or BOTH if you like.
 >
 > The ZIP file is simply the 4 original pages in GIF format combined into a 
single file. Use any decompression (dezipper?) program. File size is 2.7 MB.
 >
 > The PDF is 1.5MB in size.
 >
 > For dial-up users, I can send you the pages one at a time, but the 2 
middle pages are each 1.2MB each, so best bet is still the PDF. (The first 
and last page are only ~200Kb.)
 >
 > I hope someone will also post to their website.
 > Thank you, Gordon, for writing article. Bill/KA3AIS