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Thanks Pete. I appreciate the complement.

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I find it very gratifying that my work helps someone bring a piece of equipment back to life. It also provides me with the joyful option of bringing a possibly bug invested, stored in a garage or basement for 50 of 60 years into a worthwhile and useful document that others can read, use and enjoy.

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Of course, one can find poorly scanned, incomplete, and highly marked up pages all over the Internet, but even when printed, crap is crap, and stuff is always lost in the transition.

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I just finished a military manual for a customer. Roughly 200 pages but easy to do even though every page, because of age, was brown. My machine can remove background paper color. But the hicker and hard part, were the five schematics. They were 14 inches high and 52 inches wide. And I decided these were to be done full size. A customer never has to assemble and tape any of my manual pages.

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This entire project started back in the mid 90's as a bonding project between father and son. Son was in his second high school year but didn't seem to have any idea about his future life endeavors. Since I was dragging boatanchors home to repair and get up and running,?from every hamfest I went to, my collection of manuals for this stuff started to become a pain to manage.? My son created database to manage all the manuals that I also kept collecting. He also suggested creating a catalog booklet, advertising in Electric Radio and a few other publications, and send out the catalog to all interested parties.? I firmly believe this gave him a sense of business activities and helped firm up (or at least give direction) to his future. He also created my first web site and credit him for giving it its name.

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After? high school he worked for a year before applying and being accepted at Boston Bible College at Hyde Park, MA. He felt he should earn the money to pay for college rather then taking it for granted. For 3 summers while in his college years, he worked at Lucent Technologies as a contractor and used the money earned for tuition.

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My apologies to the group for rambling, but I'm very proud of my son. I gave him a license manual when he was around seven. When he turned around 27, he finally found the time to become KB1JTP.

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Pete, wa2cwa

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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 12:50:53 +0000 (UTC) "peteradio@... via groups.io" <peteradio@...> writes: