[Elecraft] In training for K2...

[David A. Belsley]

>> Good assembly instructions - even better than Heath's.
>
> But, for Heath manuals -- there's a ways to go to meet that standard. A
> Heath manual would have small pictograms of various parts of the circuit
> board, with callouts for each component in a table, one component per
> line. There would be fold-out exploded diagrams of each assembly.
>
> No, the Elecraft manual is quite good, but it doesn't compare to a Heath
> manual. Then again, a Heath-like manual would be about 3 times thicker,
> and would cost a lot more, so you begin to understand why Heath is no
> longer in the kit business, whereas Elecraft is.



These references must be to "late model" Heath manuals.  The one that came 
with the earlier Heath products (DX 60, DX 100, and their various stereo 
amps) were adequate but pretty basic and nowhere near the Elecraft product.


been there, done that,

dave belsley, w1euy



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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics