Thank you for your purchase! We're obviously not making or trying to make any money on these, and would like to take this opportunity to explain why we do such a crazy appearing thing as put these out for a cent and a small "s&h" fee that helps us meet our expenses. We are a provider of original scanned documentation for Tektronix, HP, Fluke and Wavetek electronic test equipment. Our scanned manuals take a week to make, on the average, and are sometimes so large that one scan takes up 600 MB on a CD. That's wonderful for printing, but not so hot for general research purposes, because they're so huge and resource hungry. Therefore we provide a second scan of each document in a text-searchable PDF that's often a twentieth or even a thirtieth of the size of the "very high resolution" PDF. Because these are the full document, lacking nothing from the much larger PDFs except the extreme resolution, we also sell collections of the lower res PDFs.

Vendor 'micromanuals' acquired these collections by buying a copy through assumed identities, then broke them up and sells them as individual items on eBay with only generic descriptions, mentioning nothing about quality or resolution. He generally gets $4.99 for a CD, and then imposes a $4.99 "S&H" fee, giving the buyer ONLY one of our low res PDFs for that and actually charging more for it than we charge for the complete CD with both the lower res, the very high res, and often three or more bonus PDFs related to the equipment, if they'll fit. The "leech" vendor 'micromanuals' claims to "guarantee the lowest price on eBay" even though our $7.49 merchandise plus $2.00 S&H actually brings our price (for so much more) under his. The amazing thing is that hundreds and hundreds of folks were (and in some cases still are) falling for it!

In response, we put our lower-res PDFs on eBay for one cent. The "leech" countered by dropping his to a cent as well, and then we steadily each decreased the "S&H", until at the moment it's between .99 and 1.99.. ours is lower, and will always be lower, because we're struggling to keep what's ours while he's struggling to steal what's ours, and by his very nature a thief is incapable of outworking us. "The Leech" needed a source of supporting income so he toured around internet free PDF distribution sites such as BAMA and LOGSA, raped the sites, then put the freely downloaded material up on eBay at 4.99/4.99, and these are the precise same PDFs you're getting on this CD from us. We wouldn't interfere with the guy (informed buyer, informed seller, free enterprise and all that) but he's using the profits from his ham manual scan sales to finance his continued distribution of our test equipment material. I've been a ham for forty years now, and already had hundreds of ham manuals, though I've never sold them. Jill and I don't really want to sell them now, either!

Therefore, if you have any means of distribution of these ham radio manual PDFs, we'd really appreciate it if you'd pass them around. These are, after all, internet downloads that were originally intended for free distribution. We only distribute them at a small fee to try to recover some of our costs, and only because if we don't get them to you for somewhere between $1-$2 (and you'll notice we put a LOT of PDFs on the CD for that) "the leech" will be clipping folks for $10 per PDF for them. The guy isn't really in the scanned documentation business, he's just a parasite, and to the best of our knowledge he doesn't even own a scanner. Nor is he a ham. So if you give a darn about things like this, Jill and I would sure appreciate your help.. take them to your radio club, put 'em on your club server, send 'em to BAMA and other sites if they're not already there, give them to your friends.. and whether you do or don't give a darn, we do appreciate your taking the time to read this. Thank you.

-Ralph David Miller (AA4DF)
 and 
 Jill Bryant
 http://www.aa4df.com
 http://www.aa4df.net
 eBay: aa4df
 eBay: ralph.d.miller

P.S. Some folks may be wondering why our eBay descriptions don't say that these are all available somewhere on the internet as free downloads. Our original descriptions did say that, and eBay ended every one of them, as apparently eBay's rules don't allow us to tell you that. We don't understand it, but generally when we've investigated we've found that eBay usually has pretty good reasons for some of these unfair-seeming rules, so please understand that we're not complaining about their action here, but we do want our buyers to know why we don't state what's in this readme file in our description for the item... eBay won't let us.