On 12/7/2010 8:24 AM, Sam, KJ4VPI, wrote: (paraphrasing: I love books!) The list (nest?) of features hiding inside the K3 firmware is nearly astonishing, and quite wonderful, but I find the Users' Manual to be almost useless when one needs to find a specific item.
The "finder" inside *.pdf readers is very limited. Instead, I rely heavily on the "Nifty Ham" accessory booklet, and it sits alongside my K3 in a handy spot. As a user and author of technical articles and monographs, I have always told my students that the key component of such is a proper index. Unfortunately, the art of index writing has suffered considerably at the hands of those who write "electronic" documents, though it still thrives in the Sam's and Microsoft tomes on the Windows operating systems. Word processors contain excellent facilities for building proper indices, though these tools are seldom used by "on-line" authors. I don't believe the "finders" in Acrobat (or Microsoft Word) were ever intended to replace indices, though there seems to be a very strong tendency for authors to believe that once the main object (or text) has been perfected, the task is finished. A "Table of Contents" is not enough, and one might hope that future versions of the Users' Manual would be more complete. I add that this complaint directed at the K3 Users' Manual is actually more general...try reading the ICOM manual for one of their transceivers, etc. ad naus. These authors deserve the digitus impudicus as a reward for their failed efforts. They need to learn a lesson from book authors! / /John Ragle -- W1ZI/ / ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
