[Hallicrafters] BAMA site

[kc9cdt at aol.com]

If the guys that are selling the manuals on-line are doing this...
That is terrible and no one should buy a single one from them!
If not them...then why would anyone do it?
73,
Lee


 -----Original Message-----
From: Peter VK6PM <peter_may at optusnet.com.au>
To: hallicrafters <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Jan 6, 2012 9:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] BAMA site


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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