While "green is good", I do not think an assembly or operator's manual in electronic form is practical. It would only result in most owners printing the manual locally, and that nullifies the overall "greenness".
It is more costly for individuals to print locally than for the manual to be printed in bulk, so the overall global cost would be increased even if a few dollars could be saved on the kit price. Have you ever tried to put checkmarks into an electronic manual on a computer screen? I shudder at the thought of following a long list of resistors or capacitors to be inserted on a computer display. It is just too easy to lose your place - take a look at the K2 assembly if you do not know about the lists I refer to. How about working your way through a multipage schematic on a computer display during troubleshooting? Printed pages are a great help in those instances. I agree that in many instances .pdf manual have advantages, especially for archiving, but Elecraft already makes those available for download. 73, Don W3FPR On 8/21/2011 4:14 AM, Alastair Couper wrote: > I would like to suggest that the good folks at Elecraft consider making > paper manuals an optional item at check out time. It could save a little > money and paper, and some like myself are more inclined to download the > info in any case. Especially with radios that are evolving, like the K3, > one ends up doing this when new firmware makes the old paper manual > incomplete. So just being able to eliminate the paper completely would be > a fine thing, IMHO. > > NH7O > ______________________________________________________________ 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
