[Amps] BAMA's position.

[Will Matney]

Kenneth,

First, I would like to thank you for helping me that time when I needed a manual for the Leader LCR meter. You took time to help one person with one file, which you didn't have to do.

I think what the main problem is, is coporate attorneys who ill-advise the decision makers. They most likely have to do something to justify themselves on the payroll. The ones who knit-pick, like this, makes me wonder if they weren't the ones who tattle-taled when they were young.

Best to you and Bama, keep up the great work!

Will Matney
AT&S

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On 4/25/05 at 5:08 PM Kenneth D. Grimm, K4XL wrote:

>First of all, thanks very much for all the kind words that have been 
>expressed about BAMA.  I'm actually somewhat taken aback by the level of 
>interest in what has just been a labor of love and a second hobby on my 
>part.
>
>To be perfectly honest, HP, Tek, GR, AVO, Rhode & Schwarz, etc. were 
>never part of my "BAMA grand plan."  All I wanted to do was to make 
>available manuals for old tube type ham gear and the usual SWL receivers.
>
>Somehow, over the years, I was persuaded to add more and more test gear. 
>  The quantity and size of the HP manuals submitted to BAMA was, in many 
>respects, a pain in the posterior.  However, the demand was there and I 
>tried to oblige it.
>
>I have tried my best to explain to Mr. Simon what BAMA is and how it 
>works and so have several of you.  However, there is an Agilent company 
>policy against web distribution of their manuals.
>
>I have no idea whether it is worth the effort on Agilent's part to 
>change their rather strange policy with regard to web distribution of 
>their manuals.  The only thing that is dead certain is that BAMA will 
>not be publishing CDs of HP manuals either to give away or to sell.
>
>If anyone is interested, they should write to Mr. Simon and request a 
>license to reproduce HP manuals to be distributed on CD.  You can even 
>make a profit, if I understand the policy correctly.  Perhaps someone on 
>this list would be interested.  I'm not.
>
>73,
>-- 
>
>Ken K4XL
>k4xl at arrl.net
>
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