Eric does a WONDERFUL job scanning all these manuals - I have copies of some of his work.
But if I might ask a **TINY** little favor... IMHO, it would make viewing the board layouts MUCH easier if they could be done in color versus grey scale. Original Motorola layouts I'm familiar with used a two-color format -- reddish color for one layer and grey for the other -- but when the scan is done in grey scale, it becomes very difficult (at least for me) to sometimes follow the board tracings. However, if cost is the determining factor, I fully understand. OK, I'll go crawl off into my corner again. Hehehe 73 de Mark - N9WYS Also, Eric - I'm about ready to ship my MICOR Community Repeater Supplement off to you. My machine has been up for about 6 months now without a hiccup, so I think I can let it go for a while... <wink> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] On Behalf Of Eric Lemmon Kris, The 6880102W04 manual is for the UHF Syntor X9000 radio; I need the VHF version 6880102W05. I'm not aware of any commercial graphics shop that would take on such mail-order business without charging a considerable sum for the amount of labor involved. When I take on a manual scanning task, I separate all of the pages longer than 17" (the maximum capacity of my own scanner) and send only those pages to the graphics house. While those pages are in process, I scan all other pages myself, keeping a detailed record of where all of the long pages go. Once I get the CD-ROM from the commercial scan job, I then use Adobe Acrobat Professional to assemble all of the PDFs in proper order and adjust the margins as necessary. The collation effort takes many hours (several days on a large manual) and would be very expensive if the graphics shop did that work. Suffice it to say that a *proper* copy of a large Motorola service manual, with dozens of long fold-out schematic pages in color, would cost two to four times what the original manual cost from Motorola Parts. 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
