This is the BAMA archive. These manuals are available for download and free of charge. Do not be tricked into paying for a manual that is available here for free.

Updates

2026-10-09
- 170 new manuals added in aes, alinco, bitsavers, b&k, century, collins, dovetron, ebooks, eico, electric-eye, freq-electronics, goodwill, hickok, johnson, kantronics, micronta, military, national, rca, scientific_radio, sencore, sylvania, tennelec, triplett, uniden, and xyz.
2026-10-21
- New beta site for public review.

ra17L

Parent directory

00readme

Full manual for Racal RA.17L receiver.
Actual pages 12, 16, 18, 26, 32, 40 and 46 were blank and not included.
Compliments of John Gibson.

ra17c12 - Schematic for the North American version of the RA.17L (Manual is the same)  Compliments of Brian Goldsmith.

Version 2 of DjVu file has the schematic split into 6 overlapping files for printing a pasted-up large scale version of the schematic.  Compliments of Nigel Clarke, G8PZR.

PDF Manual for the Racal Model RA.17L Communications Receiver.  Compliments of Erik Thomassen, LA6TJA.

Files

RA-17L.pdf PDF · 15 MB
ra17l.djvu DJVU · 1.1 MB
ra17l_ver2.djvu DJVU · 1.4 MB
RA17LSchematicWholeOnePage.pdf PDF · 570 KB

Contact and submissions

If you have a better copy of any of these manuals, or a manual which is not listed, and wish to share it, upload it to cloud.edebris.com or email the archive directly. All formats are accepted.

BAMA is offered as a free service to the internet community. Please respect the archive and its download limits.

Viewers

These viewers may be required to read some manuals in the archive:

Sumatra PDF (Windows)
DjView (DjVu)
WinDjView (Windows, DjVu)
Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF)