[Milsurplus] RAK AND RAL

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 22 Jul 2016 at 19:47, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> ok  I  found it on bama   but  what  do i use  for  that  odd  file format?

It is called the DejaVu format, which was developed quite a while back here in the U.S. to 
provide much smaller, but high-resolution file sizes for documents.

Unfortunately, the designers got involved in something else, and essentially abandoned it, 
after many files on BAMA were uploaded in that format.

Two Russians have apparently recently gotten the software and have updated it quite a bit, 
so it works very well now.

The program you need to view those files with is WinDjview for Windows computers (there is 
a version for MACs and for Linux) and it is free on the web from various places, all legitimate.

When you  install it,some versions of the program ask you to install Yandex and make 
Yandex your home page, but all you have to do is tell it, "no".

> I found one  program out 
> there but  did not want to run unless  I  knew  what it  was.  if  you know a  safe one   yea  I can  
> do that here!

Go here:

http://windjview.sourceforge.net/

and download it from there. SourceForge is a legitimate site. That page will also tell you 
some more about DejaVu.

I have printed off my DjView RAK manual and can scan it into a PDF for you, but since there 
are 96 pages, it will take me several days to find enough time to do it.

Manuals for the RAK and RAL appear on eBay at odd times.

> Ok I ave seem posts  where they mention freq.  counter  works ok 
> with  ral but not  rak

No. It works the other way around: it works fine with the RAK but not with the RAL, the 
reason being that the filtering of the signal at the detectoris too good in the RAL, but there is 
plenty of RF available at the detector from the RAK for that to work well.

 as well... why?  if  you pick off last  rf amp
> before the detector   I am having a problem figuring why it  would
> not   work well!?!? 

Better filtering in the RAL.

Ken W7EKB