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Jeefaw K Effkay

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Feb 5, 2020, 4:20:38 PM2/5/20
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Heads up - this site is claiming to have been forced to take its collection of RadComs offline and, if you use the main menu, that statement appears to be true.

https://www.americanradiohistory.com/American-Radio-History-Updates.htm
Then scroll down to January 23rd 2020.

However, they are actually still there if you know how to get to them, for example:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/40s/RSGB-Bulletin-1949-02.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/50s/RSGB-Bulletin-1956-08.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/60s/RGSB-Bulletin-1961-01.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/60s/RadCom-1969-01.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/70s/RadCom-1972-11.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/80s/RadCom-1986-05.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/90s/RadCom-1995-12.pdf
You get the idea...

I suggest you download 'em all quick before they disappear for good.

Don't tell the RSGB :-)

A. non Eyemouse

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Feb 6, 2020, 4:08:59 PM2/6/20
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On 05/02/2020 21:20, Jeefaw K Effkay wrote:
> Heads up - this site is claiming to have been forced to take its collection of RadComs offline and, if you use the main menu, that statement appears to be true.
>
> https://www.americanradiohistory.com/American-Radio-History-Updates.htm
> Then scroll down to January 23rd 2020.

Another nail in the coffin of Amateur Radio.

> I suggest you download 'em all quick before they disappear for good.

They won't disappear, they'll just go underground. 8-)

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Mouse.
Where Morse meets House.

Ian Jackson

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Feb 6, 2020, 4:58:19 PM2/6/20
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In message <ha3dj8...@mid.individual.net>, A. non Eyemouse
<some...@work.invalid> writes
Too late. They seem to be gone.
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Ian

mm0fmf

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:06:55 PM2/6/20
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You're not looking hard enough. A random request for a 1988 issue
responded OK.


Jeefaw K Effkay

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Feb 7, 2020, 2:51:01 AM2/7/20
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Still working here.

Ian Jackson

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Feb 7, 2020, 3:28:01 AM2/7/20
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In message <ddd2a83d-a5ba-443d...@googlegroups.com>,
Jeefaw K Effkay <mike.ga...@googlemail.com> writes
Yes - I have the message. Tedious though.
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Ian

Xev

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Feb 7, 2020, 1:18:36 PM2/7/20
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"Jeefaw K Effkay" <mike.ga...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1001aaad-fd64-4531...@googlegroups.com...
Whisper "There are quite a lot here"

https://archive.org/details/texts?and%5B%5D=radcom&sin=

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Ian Jackson

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Feb 7, 2020, 2:15:27 PM2/7/20
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In message <ddd2a83d-a5ba-443d...@googlegroups.com>,
Jeefaw K Effkay <mike.ga...@googlemail.com> writes
I have found how to peek behind the veil - but any hint to pre-1942?
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Jeefaw K Effkay

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Feb 7, 2020, 5:21:29 PM2/7/20
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Since you asked so nicely, here you are:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/40s/T&R-Bulletin-1940-03.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/30s/T&R-Bulletin-1931-07.pdf
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/20s/T&R-Bulletin-1925-07.pdf

They don't go any further back than July 1925.

Ian Jackson

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Feb 7, 2020, 6:53:59 PM2/7/20
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In message <uCP$GyAEdb...@brattleho.plus.com>, Ian Jackson
<ianREMOVET...@g3ohx.co.uk> writes
Sussed it now.
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Ian

Ian Jackson

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Feb 8, 2020, 2:47:47 AM2/8/20
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In message <a7d43338-ef50-42ae...@googlegroups.com>,
Jeefaw K Effkay <mike.ga...@googlemail.com> writes
>On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:15:27 PM UTC, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> In message <ddd2a83d-a5ba-443d...@googlegroups.com>,
>> Jeefaw K Effkay <mike.ga...@googlemail.com> writes
>> >On Thursday, February 6, 2020 at 9:58:19 PM UTC, Ian Jackson wrote:
>> >> In message <ha3dj8...@mid.individual.net>, A. non Eyemouse
>> >> <some...@work.invalid> writes
>> >> >On 05/02/2020 21:20, Jeefaw K Effkay wrote:
>> >> >> Heads up - this site is claiming to have been forced to take its
>> >> >>collection of RadComs offline and, if you use the main menu, that
>> >> >>statement appears to be true.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>https://www.americanradiohistory.com/American-Radio-History-Updates.htm
>> >> >> Then scroll down to January 23rd 2020.
>> >> >
>> >> >Another nail in the coffin of Amateur Radio.
>> >> >
>> >> >> I suggest you download 'em all quick before they disappear for good.
>> >> >
>> >> >They won't disappear, they'll just go underground. 8-)
>> >> >
>> >> Too late. They seem to be gone.
>> >
>> >Still working here.
>>
>> I have found how to peek behind the veil - but any hint to pre-1942?
>
>Since you asked so nicely, here you are:
>https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/40s/T&R-Bulletin-1940-03.pdf
>https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/30s/T&R-Bulletin-1931-07.pdf
>https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/20s/T&R-Bulletin-1925-07.pdf

Mni tnx. Actually, I'd had several stabs at the correct form of words,
but failed. Eventually, by doing a search on a suitable keyword, I
became suitably enlightened. It's obvious, innit.
>
>They don't go any further back than July 1925.

I'm back to 1928, so not far to go.
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Ian

Peter Able

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Feb 8, 2020, 10:22:15 AM2/8/20
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On 05/02/2020 21:20, Jeefaw K Effkay wrote:
https://www.americanradiohistory.com/UK/RadCom/RadCom/

For lists of available post-1940 magazines

PA

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