[R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here

[Les Locklear]

Bob,
 
I'm chuckling at that...
 
Les


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob  Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org>
To: Tom M. <courir26 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: 8/14/2024 3:47:02 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Knob Drawings PDF's here
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> Hi
> 
> I’m guessing that the “convert to PDF” gets them a long ways towards being 
> saved for the future. It may or may not be some sort of “one at a time” manual 
> process. 
> 
> If the index / list can be turned into something else, the first step *might* 
> be something like an Excel spread sheet. Search the description field, get a 
> number, go grab that PDF. It that clunky? you bet it is. Still, you can open 
> some really old Excel spreadsheets. It also is a pretty good “long term” format. 
> 
> Yes, shoving it all into IMDb and doing a front end in Grafana would be way 
> more cool. How long either of them hang around? Who knows …. Finding folks who 
> know that stuff *and* have an R-390 orientation, also who knows. 
> 
> Bob
> 
>> On Aug 14, 2024, at 4:16 PM, Tom M. <courir26 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> The indexer shows only the drawing number which is not all that helpful. 
>> There is a drawing number list with description in the drawing set that helps 
>> some. What would be great is to rename the docs to match what’s in them but 
>> that would be very tedious. 
>> 
>> I renamed a few of the more important ones. 
>> 
>> 
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>> On Wednesday, August 14, 2024, 2:53 PM, Bob Camp <kb8tq at n1k.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> Just a thought:
>> 
>> If there *is* a process to convert these all to PDF, that would be a good 
>> thing to document. 
>> 
>> My guess is that the index is in some weird format and well into the “good 
>> luck with that” department.
>> 
>> Bob
>> 
>>> On Aug 14, 2024, at 3:36 PM, Thomas Hoyer via R-390 <r-390 at mailman.qth.net 
>>> <mailto:r-390 at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Awesome, thanks Tom
>>>    On Wednesday, August 14, 2024 at 02:36:34 PM EDT, Tom M. via R-390 <r-
>>> 390 at mailman.qth.net <mailto:r-390 at mailman.qth.net>> wrote:  
>>> 
>>> I spent a good bit of time trying to housebreak the R-390A drawing set 
>>> today.They are in C4 format.The original indexer and viewer would not work on 
>>> my PC as the apps are 25 years old.  I found newer apps online but still could 
>>> not get the indexer to work so I was flying blind in the documents (over 900) 
>>> but eventually found the knob drawings.
>>> I then converted them to PDF.  See below.
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