Ron, Yes and I can a manual faster than the electronic PDF. Where the PDF shines is in finding something, of course if you use the correct search language. As I age I sometimes find remembering the right term eludes me. :-)
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 1:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 95, Issue 50 - Electronic manuals While electronic manuals might save trees and PDF's are really great for searching for information, that won't speed up the delivery of manuals for new products or updates to manuals significantly. 99.9% of the time (and cost) required to create a new document is in the writing, illustrating, validating and editing. That doesn't change. Toward Dale's question, I have a binder for my K2 that I built in 2000 that has copies of all the many mods and changes that have been made to it over the years. My K2 has never had a failure, but if it did there'd be repair log in that binder too. I have considered doing that electronically, perhaps with a memory stick, but the one advantage of paper is that it does not require any technology to read it. 73, Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- How about you save the current online manuals and other info to a $4 USB Memory stick and put it in the box? Maybe Elecraft could even supply a "Elecraft" branded USB Memory Stick with the latest stuff on it. Then you would have a record that was consistent with when you bought your radio. Elecraft could even save the Calibration data to that memory stick as well. Personally I'd rather have that than the printed manual, and I suspect it would cost far less given printing and shipping costs. Another possibility would be if Elecraft kept archival copies of all manuals online. Personally I can live without printed manuals -- I like the PDFs, but I do see Dale's point and the cheap USB Flash Drive seems like a cheap way. 73, Bob, B4SON On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Dale Putnam <[email protected]> wrote: > > The one issue that I see with on line manuals ... any ideas? > > --... ...-- > Dale - WC7S in Wy > ______________________________________________________________ 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
