BAMA (Free)

[Malcolm Leonard]

Thanks for the update on Bama usage.
Malcolm
----- Original Message -----
From: "W6CUX" <w6cux at earthlink.net>
To: "Malcolm Leonard" <radiorepair at MINDSPRING.COM>;
<HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>; "LEON WENDLER" <electronicparts2002 at YAHOO.COM>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: BAMA (Free)


> The advantage of BAMA (and especially the mirrored site) is
> the quantity of the manuals and that it is fee for
> downloading. In the past the resolution of some scans was
> poor but with better scanners the quality of the recent
> uploads is usually very good. The problem of access has
> pretty much gone away with the mirrored site.
>
> I use XP with SP2 and two different browsers: Internet
> Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (preferred) and use the
> address:  http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/ . I always
> download to my computer's memory or desktop. Firefox
> defaults to downloading to the desktop. The DJVU plug-in
> only works with IE and is used off-line.
>
> A faster method is a FTP Client such as WS_FTP Pro with
> which you can download an entire folder with ctla-A or
> shift-click. The FTP Client has no means of viewing and can
> only download to memory but is very fast. The numerical
> address of the FTP-BAMA mirror is 216.24.174.245 .
>
> I routinely use any of the three methods and find then all
> reliable.
>
> 73, Stu W6CUX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "LEON WeENDLER" <electronicparts2002 at YAHOO.COM>
> To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 7:18 PM
> Subject: Re: BAMA
>
>
> IF YOU ARE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH BAMA TRY
> WWW.TECH-SYSTEMS.LABS.COM THEY ARE ONE OF THE LARGEST
> HEATHKIT SITES.
>
> Malcolm Leonard <radiorepair at MINDSPRING.COM> wrote:
> If you use Win Xp with the SP2 update you might (as I have
> to) right click
> and choose "save target as"and put the schematic on your
> hard drive and
> retrieve it later.
> (CLIP)
> Malcolm Leonard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen Zook"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: BAMA
>> One the BAMA "home page" there is listed a "mirror"
>> site that has 50 download positions. "Click" on that
>> site and you will be "home free".
>>
> (CLIP)>
>> Glen, K9STH
>
>> --- Ray Friess wrote:
>> Does anyone know of an existing BAMA reflector or
>> duplication site? BAMA has become almost useless
>> because it only allows 10 people at once.... and, on
>> top of that, it now allows you to take one page before
>> logging you off... at that rate it could take years to
>> get a whole manual that is needed...
>>
>> =====
>> Glen, K9STH
>>
>
>

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