[PPRAANet] Zero Beat Archive Project Status

[Timothy Butcher]

Great job Jim.  Thanks for all your hard work and diligence

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023, 08:47 k3ilc <je_madsen at comcast.net> wrote:

> I just reached a milestone in archiving Zero Beat newsletter issues on
> the Archives website - https://archive.org/details/ppraa
> I have archived all the issues from 1980 to present, and a few earlier
> years (1961, 1970, etc).  There are currently 525 issues accessible for
> viewing.
>
> One thing that is interesting, is that archive.org has a pdf/jpeg to
> text converter -- all these issues appear to be viewable as test files.
> The text converter is so-so -- it gets garbled, if the text isn't clear
> in the images, and when an article continues in a new column or page,
> that confuses it also.  But the neat thing is that you can search the
> entire database by text.  At the top of the left column is a search box
> -- click the button labled "text", type in the term you want to search
> for, and then click the search magnifying glass.
>
> The text converter doesn't understand the "Ø" symbol -- a "Ø" is
> translated as "@".  So if you wanted to search all the issues for
> "KDØKQL", you'd have to search for "KD at KQL".
>
> I've learned a lot in doing this project.  I hope to have the remaining
> Zero Beats in my possession archived within the next few weeks.  This
> project has helped me attain one of my goals -- to organize and be able
> to share PPRAA's historical documents.
>
> 73
>
> Jim Madsen
> K3ILC
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