[R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll

Mon Jan 24 18:35:16 EST 2005

Hi

The 'bama manual site is probably a good indicator of file size and 
what the result would look like. If the issue were sold one at a time I 
doubt that bandwidth would be an issue on the "sending" end. It might 
be an issue on the receiving end. Aborted downloads on big files would 
also be a hassle. I'm not sure exactly how to handle all that stuff.

My basic idea was to set up a single point to grab back issues from. 
Once you got the bugs worked out with one magazine you could move on to 
others. More or less like iTunes but for Boatanchors. Selling 
compilations on CD is also a reasonable thing to do once it's all in 
digital form.

As I search the net for stuff it's amazing just how much is *not* 
present on the web. In order to get more stuff on it needs to make 
sense financially.

Why should this matter to any of us ... well gee wiz - how many of us 
learned this stuff back in the (gulp) 1960's or (double big gulp) 
before that. We're not all going to live for ever. It would be a 
terrible waste to see these radios go to the dump just because nobody 
understood just how good they are any more. I firmly believe that these 
radios will still be as good in 30 years from now as they are today. 
I'm not so sure that there will be an active community supporting them 
....

Boy that got a bit off topic .... sorry about that.

	Take Care!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ

On Jan 23, 2005, at 11:07 PM, Barry Hauser wrote:

> Hi Bob & List
>
> Most of the old issues are hard-copy.  Many of the really old ones were
> typewritten, not even word processed, so never existed in digital 
> form.  The
> easiest and most authentic looking result would be had through bit 
> imaged
> scans pulled into pdf or deja-vu files.  However, this limits the
> compression that those file formats allow.  For maximum compactness and
> highest resolution, the old issues would have to be OCR'ed.  That 
> might be
> necessary to keep bandwidth under control, not sure.
>
> Barry
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Camp" <ham at cq.nu>
> To: "Cecil Acuff" <chacuff at cableone.net>; "R-390 HF Receiver List"
> <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 1:48 PM
> Subject: Re: [R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm the one that started the whole back issue thing. It was not part 
>> of
>> Barry's initial post. I threw it in because it would  be of 
>> significant
>> value to me. I do not have a collection of the back issues. I don't
>> know what digital format the old issues exist in (if any). If it's
>> something like Quark or Pagemaker then turning them directly into 
>> pdf's
>> should be possible. If they are a "only exist in paper form" thing 
>> then
>> scanning them would be a bit of a pain. I more or less assumed they
>> still exist in digital form ....
>>
>> I didn't elaborate on the idea but I was thinking that selling the 
>> back
>> issue images at something like 50 cents or a dollar a copy would make
>> sense. Keep the price low enough that it's way below the threshold of
>> pain but high enough to pay for the effort. You can't mail a print 
>> copy
>> for that kind of money so electronic distribution makes sense.
>>
>> Take Care!
>>
>> Bob Camp
>> KB8TQ
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Cecil Acuff wrote:
>>
>>> There has been a lot of mention of back issues...
>>>
>>> Since those are not in electronic format today are those really part
>>> of the project as proposed?  I think the hope is that if HSN is
>>> offered in a more convenient and accessible format that contributions
>>> of new material might be stimulated.  I think Barry was more looking
>>> forward than back.  I believe back issues have always been available
>>> to the extent that Barry has them to send...
>>>
>>> Of course having the back issues scanned and available would be icing
>>> on the cake....can we make this viable for the future!
>>>
>>> Just my thoughts...
>>>
>>> Cecil...
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Bjerkelund" <k7ais at msn.com>
>>> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 12:30 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll
>>>
>>>
>>>> Count me in......
>>>>
>>>> Brian, K7AIS
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cecil Acuff"
>>>> <chacuff at cableone.net>
>>>> To: "Kurt" <r390auser at cox.net>; <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 6:08 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Ditto...
>>>>>
>>>>> Cecil...
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt" <r390auser at cox.net>
>>>>> To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 4:11 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [R-390] HSN Status -- and a poll
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Barry
>>>>>> I would like to see the HSN continue. Web based would be fine and
>>>>>> I'm willing to pay a subscription fee to have access to it. The
>>>>>> concept is no different than subscribing to it in paper form. I
>>>>>> have a complete set and still refer to them for time to time.
>>>>>> Anyone who works on their own 390/390A needs this information.
>>>>>> Good Luck,
>>>>>> Kurt Holbrook
>>>>>>
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