#384

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Hello everyone !

I have recently acquired in a box of mostly Tektronix manuals (for which I’m also looking for a home) a Johnson Viking I transmitter manual.

It even has the un-numbered page with instructions about how to connect the transmitter to drive “a larger modulator” – a page Johnson inserted between pages 8 and 9.

It's clearly mimeographed, and the pages are light tan, no longer white. The cover has a picture of the transmitter and the typical Johnson red-orange bands across the top and bottom.? It says that it’s CATALOG 705, but the insides are clearly a manual.? Only the top two pages, which are printed on glossy stock, appear to be from a/the catalog, so someone apparently stapled the relevant two pages from the catalog onto and as the front pages of the aging mimeographed Viking I manual.

It also has a page of handwritten notes about how to tune up the transmitter.

I don’t have a Viking I – I have a Valiant and a Navigator, so I don’t need this manual.

So, it’s free to a good home.

If you have a Viking I and would like this manual, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. First responder gets it.

No cost – I just can’t bear to throw away equipment manuals!

Now if you know someone who’d like a cardboard file box full to Tektronix manuals, please tell me.? I’m trying to keep them out of the landfill, too!

Mike/
K5MGR
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Mike Langner
929 Alameda Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-1901

(505) 898-3212 home/home office
(505) 238-8810 cell
mlangner@...

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#385

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Mike/K5MGR:

There are two tektronix user groups where you could offer to sell (or give away) the Tek manuals: Tekscopes, and Tekscopes2.? There's also a Tektronix museum in Oregon that might accept the manuals, and there are some Tekscopes and/or Tekscopes2 group users that have in the past scanned copies of Tektronix manuals for free, or paid, distribution to group members.? So don't set a match to them!

The Tekscopes and Tekscopes2 user groups are very active, something like 7000+ members in total.? They deal with all items Tektronix, not just oscilloscopes.

Mike D? N4MWP

On 2/21/25 12:16, Mike Langner via groups.io wrote:

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Hello everyone !

I have recently acquired in a box of mostly Tektronix manuals (for which I’m also looking for a home) a Johnson Viking I transmitter manual.

It even has the un-numbered page with instructions about how to connect the transmitter to drive “a larger modulator” – a page Johnson inserted between pages 8 and 9.

It's clearly mimeographed, and the pages are light tan, no longer white. The cover has a picture of the transmitter and the typical Johnson red-orange bands across the top and bottom.? It says that it’s CATALOG 705, but the insides are clearly a manual.? Only the top two pages, which are printed on glossy stock, appear to be from a/the catalog, so someone apparently stapled the relevant two pages from the catalog onto and as the front pages of the aging mimeographed Viking I manual.

It also has a page of handwritten notes about how to tune up the transmitter.

I don’t have a Viking I – I have a Valiant and a Navigator, so I don’t need this manual.

So, it’s free to a good home.

If you have a Viking I and would like this manual, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. First responder gets it.

No cost – I just can’t bear to throw away equipment manuals!

Now if you know someone who’d like a cardboard file box full to Tektronix manuals, please tell me.? I’m trying to keep them out of the landfill, too!

Mike/
K5MGR
_________________________

?

Mike Langner
929 Alameda Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-1901

(505) 898-3212 home/home office
(505) 238-8810 cell
mlangner@...

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#386

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Great – I’ll try ‘em !

Thanks !!

Mike/
K5MGR
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Mike Langner
929 Alameda Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-1901

(505) 898-3212 home/home office
(505) 238-8810 cell
mlangner@...

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Dinolfo via groups.io
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2025 10:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EFJohnson-Amateur-Radio] Free -- original Viking I manual

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Mike/K5MGR:

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There are two tektronix user groups where you could offer to sell (or give away) the Tek manuals: Tekscopes, and Tekscopes2.? There's also a Tektronix museum in Oregon that might accept the manuals, and there are some Tekscopes and/or Tekscopes2 group users that have in the past scanned copies of Tektronix manuals for free, or paid, distribution to group members.? So don't set a match to them!

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The Tekscopes and Tekscopes2 user groups are very active, something like 7000+ members in total.? They deal with all items Tektronix, not just oscilloscopes.

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Mike D? N4MWP

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On 2/21/25 12:16, Mike Langner via groups.io wrote:

Hello everyone !

I have recently acquired in a box of mostly Tektronix manuals (for which I’m also looking for a home) a Johnson Viking I transmitter manual.

It even has the un-numbered page with instructions about how to connect the transmitter to drive “a larger modulator” – a page Johnson inserted between pages 8 and 9.

It's clearly mimeographed, and the pages are light tan, no longer white. The cover has a picture of the transmitter and the typical Johnson red-orange bands across the top and bottom.? It says that it’s CATALOG 705, but the insides are clearly a manual.? Only the top two pages, which are printed on glossy stock, appear to be from a/the catalog, so someone apparently stapled the relevant two pages from the catalog onto and as the front pages of the aging mimeographed Viking I manual.

It also has a page of handwritten notes about how to tune up the transmitter.

I don’t have a Viking I – I have a Valiant and a Navigator, so I don’t need this manual.

So, it’s free to a good home.

If you have a Viking I and would like this manual, please let me know and I’ll send it to you. First responder gets it.

No cost – I just can’t bear to throw away equipment manuals!

Now if you know someone who’d like a cardboard file box full to Tektronix manuals, please tell me.? I’m trying to keep them out of the landfill, too!

Mike/
K5MGR
_________________________
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Mike Langner
929 Alameda Road NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-1901

(505) 898-3212 home/home office
(505) 238-8810 cell
mlangner@...

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