[Milsurplus] Status of BAMA

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Sad  to hear about BAMA - Maybe the owner is  on a long cruse? Do  not like 
hearing about more  people passing away.... hopefully  there  are  a few 
mirrors of this plus  some  private stashes of   the  files.
 
Ed Sharpe archivist  for SMECC 
 
 
In a message dated 7/6/2016 10:27:38 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
kargo_cult at msn.com writes:

Here's  my experience. I am thinning out my many hundreds of manuals. At one
time i  was collecting test equipment manuals like mad.
But i realized i don't want  to archive all that hardcopy. I don't have
either the equipment or the time  to devote to scanning excess 
manuals. I contacted someone at bama late  last year and he did give me an
address to mail the manuals to. I am  talking old test equipment
manuals for VTVMs, scopes, signal generators of  the kind you find for 
little
money at hamfests. The HP and Tek manuals i  have, large ones,
will sell on Ebay. I make progress on my project  episodically, so i wanted
to inquire with BAMA if the address was still  viable and BAMA 
still going. I have written to the email address given,  two, maybe three
times this year, NO response. Reluctantly i am scratching  BAMA off
my list. I DO have a physical address i was given, to mail paper  to, BUT I
am not going to send the manuals into a dark hole. That would  seem
to have the same result as dumping them in the recycling bin.  
These online projects and museums are very interesting and useful but  it
seems like they get ahead of their owner, the owner eventually
burns  out. The crew has bailed out, but the aircraft flies goes on across
the  desert, on autopilot, seemingly forever.

"CB Tricks" - i had some CB  set booklets, NON-Sams, which means no 
copyright
issues, offered them. The  website does have some sad 
story about his divorce, employment problems,  etc.    No response.
Some kind of website about video cameras: I  offered an 8mm cassette camera,
and player, complete setup, not seen  commonly any more,
no response.
"Semiconductor Museum"  - i offered  early transistor spec sheets ( all this
stuff i have offered was free of  any charge ) from defunct 
manufacturers. No response.
"Online Radio  Shack catalogs"  - offered some 1950s flyers he does not have
in his  collection. No response to multiple emails.  

"Americanradiohistory.com"  - i have sent over a hundred lbs. of  magazines
to him. He DOES respond but sometimes it takes a few 
emails  to jog him. His site IS backed up offsite, but the scanning and
handling  inquiries, mailing material people want returned, are
all a one-man  operation, plus he's employed. It's really too much for one
person.  

Here are people running informative websites that are alive and  breathing
and the owners actually DO promptly  respond:
Radionerds
Navy-radio.com
SMECC

AND their websites  aren't cute & jokesy  AND their pages and scans ARE high
quality  and readable. AND you can be confident your're
not sending things into a  black hole.  But it appears BAMA is a ghost. 
-Hue Miller  
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