It seems that 'free' downloads of Heathkit manuals are no longer available! Copyright issues.

[Robert Groh]

Ladies and gentleman, it looks like our access to copies of Heathkit
manuals has come up to a thundering halt. I first noticed something
amiss when I tried to find a Heathkit manual on BAMA and, strange to
note, there was no 'Heath' in the index!  And no contents on the one
old link I had to a manual.  "Very strange", thought I, "maybe the site
is busted".

Then, just a couple of minutes ago, I saw an email on another forum a
Heathkit manual and directions to go to the Tech Systems site and there
is where I found the following notice:
 
"On October 30, 2008, Data Professionals of Pleasanton, CA purchased
the Intellectual property of the Heathkit legacy products from Heathkit
in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  This rights to these legacy products also
includes the copyright. All free manuals have been removed from this
site in compliance with copyright laws. "

So no downloads on the Tech Systems site and that is probably what
happened on the BAMA site also. Super bummer! And I imagine this will
impact the manual copying business also. Haven't checked any of the
manual vendors.

73 (in grief and sorrow)
Bob, WA2CKY

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