[Boatanchors] [BoatAnchors] Hallicrafters AC Power Supply for the BC-348, question

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You can download one file without joining.  To download two or more, I 
think that you have to join, or at least did the day that I downloaded one.  
That doesn't really bother me but the superfragilistic password has to be kept 
up with and must match the specific download file (if you misplace the 
password you will have to join and download it again).  The files won't open in 
anything earlier than Acrobat X.  The one time that I downloaded a file to 
help out another guy (whom they wouldn't allow to either download or join 
because they had blacklisted his ISP) I had to stop and install the new software 
(luckily I had already bought it) before I could proceed.  And after 
jumping through the password hoop to finally open the TM, I discovered that I 
couldn't print anything.  And I couldn't extract the two or three wide foldouts 
to piece them back together and send them over to the outfit I use for 
printing foldouts wider than 17". That was the other thing I was going to do for 
the guy who actually wanted that manual.  All in all, I wasted about half a 
day trying to do someone a favor.  But I'd have been just as PO'd if it had 
been for a rig that I needed to work on.  Because I don't have a computer in 
the ET shack.

Robert D.

In a message dated 01/28/2013 11:21:11 AM Central Standard Time, 
kb8tad at gmail.com writes: 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> All they asked for was my native e-mail which I provided them (my
> emeritus university e-mail).  Their response e-mail provided me with a
> password to download the documentation of interest.  While the
> response e-mail invited me to join the group, it was not a
> requirement.  A number of other providers of free documentation
> require jumping through such hoops to prevent wholesale copying of
> free material that is then resold on ebay.   I have had no other
> involvement with them.  I don't believe that they know that the SC
> stamp on the document had its provenance from Robert Downs.
> 
> Cheers es 73,
> Rich KB8TAD
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Richard Knoppow
> <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> >
> >     Boy do these folks make you jump through hoops to download anything. 
>  I
> >don't like being forced to join something just to download a couple of
> >documents.  There are other web sites (BAMA for instance) that don't do
> >this.
> 

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480