[Hallicrafters] BAMA site

[Peter VK6PM]

Hi Tom,
What appears to have happened with many of the "free manual sites" is 
hackers gradually leech the manuals from them. Low definition versions with 
shocking contrast (black cat with a white nose in a coal-mine at midnight) 
and unreadable schematics seem to replace the good quality versions.
I recently pointed this out to the Yaesu FT7 group, a situation arose where 
there were no "free" high definition versions of the FT-7B manual around any 
more.
After leeching all the manuals,  at some stage in the future, the site is 
taken down completely, the good quality manuals are burnt to a disk and sold 
on-line at ePay by the hackers, or they turn up on "pay for manuals" sites.
If I sound somewhat suspicious, it's because I've tracked some of my 
original scans (identifiable due to unique artefacts in the scan) and 
uploaded to "free sites" over the years since the mid 1990s, this has been 
their fate.

Regards
Peter VK6PM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TC Dailey" <daileyservices at qwest.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 1:48 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] BAMA site


> The BAMA mirror site WAS outstanding for a long time, but either it's been
> hacked, or messed with - for instance, every listing reads "reworked 
> by..."
> (which prints out fine).  The MANUAL print quality is horrid, and the
> viewing quality has diminished as well - this confirmed by Rich KB8TAD who
> has a popular boatanchor site through "oakcats".
>
> Look at it yourself - you'll see.
>
> Tom
>
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