[Elecraft] When referring to a certain page in the manual...

[Jerry Kincade]

Excellent, excellent idea, Tom.
73, Jerry W5KP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hammond N�SS" <n0ss@earthlink.net>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 6:06 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] When referring to a certain page in the manual...


> GM Folks:
>
> I'm just as guilty as the next guy, so please understand that I'm not
> preaching here...
>
> Many times, when we are attempting to help someone obtain assistance in
> building - completing - troubleshooting their rig, we refer them to the
> page in their manual.
>
> The problem is that we often don't KNOW which manual they have at their
> disposal... I mean, we DO know that they have THE manual, such as _A_ K2
> manual, in their hands, but we don't know what VERSION of the manual they
> have. And believe me, no two versions are identical. As a result, when we
> refer to "... page XX in the K2 Manual...", when they go to that page,
they
> expect to find what we're directing them to. But they WON'T find it there,
> because they have a different version of the manual. In fact, there are
> some instances where their manual doesn't even ADDRESS the subject we
found
> the version of our manual.
>
> So, let's try to remember to not only reference the model/option, page,
and
> step/paragraph number, but also the REVISION letter/number of the manual
> from which we are quoting.
>
> Although Elecraft has been pretty darn good about posting PDF copies of
the
> latest version of the manuals for each of their options to their web site,
> they seem to not retain copies of the OLDER versions there as well. Many
> times, it's the older version which we used to build our rigs. If we
manage
> to lose the hardcopy original of our manual, we must download a newer
> version to our PC for future use. While this is generally no problem,
there
> have been times when the instructions, component descriptions, or values
> have changed from one manual revision to the next, and when we go back and
> try to re-trace our assembly steps, or confirm that we put every component
> in the proper location on the PC board, we no longer can... at least using
> the 'newer' version of the manual.
>
> It would be very helpful, particularly to those of us who might have older
> rigs and options, for Elecraft to create a MANUAL ARCHIVES section on
their
> web site which would contain any/all versions of previous manuals.
>
> Stepping down from my soapbox... ducking and running...
>
> 73 - Tom Hammond   N0SS
>
>
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