[MRCA] [Vintage-Military-RADAR] Re: AN/PRC-74 Schematics

[J. Forster]

> John,
>
> this is a new one to me - but I totally agree with you.

It first came to my attention 6 months to a year ago in connection with an
inverter redesign for a manpack. I corresponded with the librarian who
held the document, but got no satisfactory answer.

I've not found any way to communicate with Google and all I get are
useless "Help" screens.

> What you say supports the point I have made many times to those
> interested in vintage electronics that you cannot - must not - rely on
> the "institutions" to safeguard our history and heritage.

Well, individuals don't work that well either- as we both know all too well.

> By "institutions" I am referring to any company, body, museum, group,
> etc, that is set up to do anything other than preserve and explore that
> history/heritage.   Google's main aim is to make money, not preserve
> history.

FRully agreed.

Best,

-John

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> Richard
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> On 30/11/2012 02:53, J. Forster wrote:
>>
>> The partial scanning of oversized prints is a known problem with
>> Google's
>> scanned documents.
>>
>> I went through this with one library they scanned. They acknowleged they
>> were not scanning the oversized prints, and gave me the line that just
>> about the whole thing was being scanned. It's is obvious they simply
>> have
>> utterly no clue about electronics and that a partial schematic is all
>> but
>> useless.
>>
>> I am reminded of a program called "great square inches in art" where
>> only
>> the good bits of paintings are reproduced.
>>
>> But it gets worse- a LOT worse-
>>
>> Sooner or later the library is going to throw out the hard copy to make
>> room for the latest trash, figuring the document has been scanned. And,
>> it
>> will be gone forever.
>>
>> IMO, this Google program is run by complete cretins. And, it seems there
>> is no way to contact Google.
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> -John
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>> > Gang,
>> >
>> > I've recently been working on my PRC-74's and was pleased to find that
>> > the DEPOT maintenance manual, TM 2011-5820-590-35, is downloadable
>> from
>> > Google books:
>> >
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=ldAXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT6&dq=TM+11-5820-590&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nQ24UPnHK9Gy0AGw9oCgAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA
>> >
>> > THE BAD NEWS: The all important schematics in Chapter 6 are AWOL.
>> >
>> > THE GOOD NEWS: I took my turn in the barrel, and scanned and stitched
>> > together the paper copies I in my collection.
>> > You can grab these from my site here:
>> > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/mil/mil1.htm
>> >
>> > Have fun,
>> > Al
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Al Klase - N3FRQ
>> > Jersey City, NJ
>> > http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>> >
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