Dawn
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This isn't really an issue for me as this is my career. But for those that want to get into repair, there really hasn't been many publications since the boom during the late 70's and early 80's.
My manual library has many SAMS that for the most part ended around '76 along with Raytheon,RS, Johnson, and Pearce Simpson from the channelized and 23 channel days. I have only a handfull for SAMs covering 40 ch. 5104 Hitachi Penny's, RS, and Sears that I always considered to be the ultimate build engineering. Some early '858 uniden chassis of the early RS, Courier sets, and then the MB/Cobra 148gtl chassis and clones that were favorites of the amateur conversions due to their broadbandness and expandability, but poor performers by comparison.
I've had a set of secret CB thanks to the net and original copies of the Roger/CPO Sideband and Engineering publications by a former CPI engineer that tried to standardize a chip database that ultimately was done by Lou Franklin which I have a set of his docs.
Beyond that, I have a SAMS publicatiions such as Edwad Knoll's Test Equipment and Measurements and Joh D Lenks Handbook of Practical CB Service. Besides Franklin's docs, the Sencore and B&K service docs probably have been the best source of service and evaluation docs. Hickok may have produced a treasure trove of vocational docs for their training and instruction, but they have never made into the public domain or copied.
Just wondering what you folks have or had and what important docs should be in most people's service library.
My manual library has many SAMS that for the most part ended around '76 along with Raytheon,RS, Johnson, and Pearce Simpson from the channelized and 23 channel days. I have only a handfull for SAMs covering 40 ch. 5104 Hitachi Penny's, RS, and Sears that I always considered to be the ultimate build engineering. Some early '858 uniden chassis of the early RS, Courier sets, and then the MB/Cobra 148gtl chassis and clones that were favorites of the amateur conversions due to their broadbandness and expandability, but poor performers by comparison.
I've had a set of secret CB thanks to the net and original copies of the Roger/CPO Sideband and Engineering publications by a former CPI engineer that tried to standardize a chip database that ultimately was done by Lou Franklin which I have a set of his docs.
Beyond that, I have a SAMS publicatiions such as Edwad Knoll's Test Equipment and Measurements and Joh D Lenks Handbook of Practical CB Service. Besides Franklin's docs, the Sencore and B&K service docs probably have been the best source of service and evaluation docs. Hickok may have produced a treasure trove of vocational docs for their training and instruction, but they have never made into the public domain or copied.
Just wondering what you folks have or had and what important docs should be in most people's service library.