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CB Tricks web site
- Thread starter dss56
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So true…regarding radios, I spend about 90% of my time salvaging and repairing old radios, 5% helping others salvage theirs, 4% trying to learn back what I have forgotten, and 1% actually talking on a radio.
Just discovered a crock in the web site's links. Maco M104 4-element beam book got dropped from the site, along with all the other Maco antennas at the request of the product line's new owners Charles Electronics.
The DVD set has those files. They were made before Charles asked to have them pulled. But on the page for that antenna, there is no link to the PDF.
Oops.
But the pdf file is there. Just no link to it. Would never have seen it on the web site, but there it was in the WindowsExplorer screen
Sent a customer home happy with a printed copy of it. Makes me wonder if going farther back to an older Wayback grab from before those files were removed would show the M104, or if the broken link on the DVD is the same as the site's html file for the M104?
It's probably not the only broken link on the site, but it makes the DVD version look better all the time.
73
The DVD set has those files. They were made before Charles asked to have them pulled. But on the page for that antenna, there is no link to the PDF.
Oops.
But the pdf file is there. Just no link to it. Would never have seen it on the web site, but there it was in the WindowsExplorer screen
Sent a customer home happy with a printed copy of it. Makes me wonder if going farther back to an older Wayback grab from before those files were removed would show the M104, or if the broken link on the DVD is the same as the site's html file for the M104?
It's probably not the only broken link on the site, but it makes the DVD version look better all the time.
73
I usually go to Maco and print off the instructions since they were removed from the cbtricks site.
http://www.macoantennas.net/AssemblyInstructions.html
http://www.macoantennas.net/AssemblyInstructions.html
Well that's way cool! Thanks for the link.
Just for grins, I checked older grabs in the Wayback. Had to go back to 2008, but they have 'lost' those pages, or didn't grab them at the time.
And then my idiot light came on. Bennie didn't remove the files. That's why they're on the DVDs. He just removed the hyperlinks to them. Accomplished the same result.
73
Just for grins, I checked older grabs in the Wayback. Had to go back to 2008, but they have 'lost' those pages, or didn't grab them at the time.
And then my idiot light came on. Bennie didn't remove the files. That's why they're on the DVDs. He just removed the hyperlinks to them. Accomplished the same result.
73
Nomad I can not remember how long ago it has been that your links disapeared from the site. I know Bill and Handy Andy's links were still there when the site was working.
I wonder if the links got lost after the big crash in about 2010 when Bennie had to reload the site back then. I did not have internet from the 1st of 2008 until some time in 2010 and had to rejoin do to the site crash. when I moved back to Oklahoma in 2008 there was not any internet where I moved until 2010..
getting to old to remember all of this stuf any more.
I wonder if the links got lost after the big crash in about 2010 when Bennie had to reload the site back then. I did not have internet from the 1st of 2008 until some time in 2010 and had to rejoin do to the site crash. when I moved back to Oklahoma in 2008 there was not any internet where I moved until 2010..
getting to old to remember all of this stuf any more.
I looked at my disk last night, the Maco section is on the disk if we’re talking about the same thing here. I never paid any attention to it on the website, I only used the radio section for service info.
has anyone tried to log on to the regular cbtricks.com lately?
the page shows up, but looks dubious.
thoughts?
LC
the page shows up, but looks dubious.
thoughts?
LC
No luck here on even getting the page to load...
Site appears to still be down - at least at the time of this post.
Site appears to still be down - at least at the time of this post.
I just tried, looks strange and there's not much there or in the menu's! Maybe it's a work in progress?? It's a turn for something compared to what we've seen in the last almost 2 years. Hopeful!
I looked at it earlier myself and looks like he is just getting started with it. at least it is starting to show proggress.
The "VIEW>>Source" reveals it's not original Bennie work.
This is a re-write - so you know...
STRONG HINT:
"Galeries" is a reference to a mall located in Australia...or a French Store Chain...
Gallery refers to an exhibit or place where items are on display...
So Bennie may have lost the battle to keep CB Tricks - it may be owned by someone else...an entity that he may not be in control of.
Brace for the Impact this may have...
This is a re-write - so you know...
STRONG HINT:
"Galeries" is a reference to a mall located in Australia...or a French Store Chain...
Gallery refers to an exhibit or place where items are on display...
So Bennie may have lost the battle to keep CB Tricks - it may be owned by someone else...an entity that he may not be in control of.
Brace for the Impact this may have...
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