[Boatanchors] Uncle Sam's manual download - where is it

WA5CAB at cs.com WA5CAB at cs.com
Fri Feb 4 09:59:29 EST 2005


Greg,

LOGSA is not up for use by the general public (us included).  It's there for 
DA operations.  If you stir up a stink, they may realize that some of it is 
open and shut us all out.  

Don't bother trying to call their help desk.  Unless you just happened to get 
someone who once had a job where he was around any of the stuff on your list, 
they are not going to have the foggiest idea what you are talking about.  
Unless any of it happens to be stuff that the Army bought only under the civilian 
nomenclature.  But it that case (unlike during WW-II) it is unlikely that 
there would have been any TM 11 done on it, and the manufacturers manual is 
unlikely to have been scanned and put up on the site.

In 44 years of collecting military sets, I have never come across any 
cross-reference pub that went FROM contractors model TO military model, and only a 
relatively few in the other direction.  In fact, there's no logical reason why 
they should ever have done the former.  It would have been a blatant waste of 
tax dollars.

Also, note that this is a DA site.  If only the Air Force or Navy (but not 
the Army) procurred a piece of equipment, you will seldom find any docs on it on 
LOGSA.

In a message dated 2/4/2005 8:39:21 AM Central Standard Time, 
bluebirdtele at earthlink.net writes: 
> Yeah? How do you use it? What I'm trying to do is search for manuals of 
> test
> equipment by the manufacturer's model number. I don't have the government
> numbers.  Equipment I am fairly sure was in the inventory at one time.  I
> suppose I am looking for a decoder to convert Mfg's number to Government
> number.  Their help desk doesn't answer the phone so far.
> The target equipment here is:
> HP 851B
> HP 8551B
> Boonton 91 BD
> ITT Mackay Marine ssb 100 and MT 100 frequency/mode programmer
> All but one probably in the Depot repair system way back when

73
Robert Downs - Houston
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