I totally disagree. With the tools that are available to us these days,
one person could produce change pages for the K3 fairly quickly.
However, I think I have a homebrew solution - annotate the manual with
the changes reflected in the Release Notes, and keep them in a separate
binder, in order. It's still 2 steps instead of one, but....
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/23/2019 9:48 PM, W2xj wrote:
What you are advocating is a federal government style of documentation. It
doesn’t come cheap. How much more would you be willing to pay for products to
support a vastly increased Elecraft documentation team?
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On May 23, 2019, at 9:23 PM, N4ZR <n...@comcast.net> wrote:
I wasn't suggesting that Elecraft "issue a new manual" with every firmware release, just
that it institute a "change page" system. Currently the K3 documentation is confused at
best. According to the release notes, the latest MCU is 4.77, but my radio was back to the factory
early this year, and it now reports an installed MCU version of 5.66. Oddly, though, the K3
Utility says that 4.67 is still the latest available. There are similar discontinuities in the FPF
and DSP firmware. So I have absolutely no idea what's changed in my radio.
73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/23/2019 4:14 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
Pete,
If you download the newest manual, you will have the most up to date
information that is printed in the manual.
Above and beyond that (and equally important), you should pay attention to the
Firmware Release Notes. They are on the website and also included on the K3
Utility Help Tab.
Those Firmware Release changes also constitute changes/additions to whatever
level manual you have. So if you mark up you manual starting with each
firmware release after the date in the manual, you will have all the
information in the manual.
I don't think it is practical for Elecraft to issue a new manual with each
firmware release.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 5/23/2019 3:55 PM, N4ZR wrote:
One of the nice things about Elecraft gear is the continuous improvement that
goes on, even years after initial release. Unfortunately, these improvements
are often only documented at release time, and nine years' worth (in my case)
is hard to organize.
Recently, I ran into issues with my middle-aged K3 that turned out to be caused
by a change in functionality undocumented in my manual from 2010, which I
inadvertently triggered.
Why wouldn't it be possible to put someone to work identifying which pages in each manual
have been changed or added and then producing "change pages" that we could
print out and insert - for example a new page 6, and pages 6a, 6b etc., as needed to
bring the manual back in sync with the
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