[VHFcontesting] All Icom SVC manuals, free pdf

[WBR/WF4R]

Much easier if you simply right_click and do a
"save target as"  navigate to where you want to save the file and click 
"save"
73, Bill, WF4R


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephan Andre'" <andres at msu.edu>
To: <vhfcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] All Icom SVC manuals, free pdf


> On Thursday 16 August 2007 18:13:33 Joshua M. Arritt wrote:
>> kr7o at vhfdx.com wrote:
>> >  The Italian site does not
>> > have the 37a manual, but lists one for the 47a, but I get an error
>> > message in Italian when I try to download that or other manuals from 
>> > that
>> > site (will try later).
>>
>> The links on this page:
>>
>> http://www.marcucci.it/e_download_s.htm
>>
>>  ...point to strange, non-standard, I'd imagine non W3C-compliant URLs --
>>
>> ftp://ftppub:ftpmarc@213.215.151.204/ftppub/service/GP22.zip
>>
>> ...for example.
>>
>> When you strip the stuff between "ftp://" and the IP address, they seem
>> to work.
>>
>> Also bummed that the IC-251A, nor the dreaded IC-245 are listed here.  I
>> did finally, however, find the user manual for the 245.  One of these
>> days, that's going to make one butt-ugly IF radio!
>>
>>    73,
>>       - Josh / KF4YLM
>
> Heh.  That FTP url is a completely standard, RFC compliant thing.  it logs
> into the account ftppub with a password of ftpmarc, on the machine at
> 213.215.151.204.  If your stripping the account and pw worked, then
> they likely got rid of the password scheme for FTP (which only makes
> sense--why are they trying to protect public data?).
>
> But it is a valid URL.  There are even worse examples of URLs which I
> won't go into here. ;-)
>
> --STeve Andre'
> wb8wsf  en82
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