Last thought on this. While in the manufacturing business years ago at KLM, we had complaints about the assembly instructions. From that point on, the receptionist had a new job title. "Assembly instruction manual tester". When the manual got to the level where she could put the antenna together successfully, we shipped it. Know thy user.
Mel, K6KBE ________________________________ From: Jack Chomley <[email protected]> To: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wed, June 29, 2011 2:49:30 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Tech Writing Just like the user manual comic for the M16 Armalite, some 40 years ago :-) 73, Jack VK4JRC On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV <[email protected]> wrote: > > The problem is that there are so many who never bother to ready the > manuals these days ... and even more than can't read anything above > the level of a "graphic novel" (a.k.a. comic book). It is nearly > impossible to tell a technical story under those conditions. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
