[Elecraft] How to get your own board trace images

Sat Apr 10 01:44:01 2004

I can tell you from experience that a simple piece of paper with ink on =
it
can be expensive.=20

It's very labor-intensive to inventory, package, pack and check to see =
that
the right diagrams are in the kit before shipment.=20

Every item added to a kit is a cost, and it's not a trivial cost for a
company dedicated to shipping the kits right the first time.=20

That's why supporting documentation for most products sold by all sorts =
of
companies isn't supplied with them, and if you want to special order it
you'll find it isn't cheap. They aren't making any money on it usually. =
It's
just the cost of handling "special orders" for a limited number of
customers.=20

It looks like Wayne and Eric, with Tom's help, have found a way to fill =
the
need essentially free to those who want the diagrams by making them
available on demand for those who want them electronically.=20

It sounds smart to me..

Ron AC7AC=20

-----Original Message-----
>Don't forget...someone, somewhere has to pay for the bandwidth and hard =

>drive storage of those files.
>
>An acceptable compromise might be to buy a CD that contains the files.

I guess I must be totally out to lunch, and out of date.

What I am hearing (reading) from several list postings is that the only
reason PCB diagrams have never been supplied **in any form** by Elecraft =
is
that:

(1) Someone besides Elecraft has to produce the images (?!), and/or
(2) It would make manual downloads too large, and/or
(3) It would require more server capacity, and/or
(4) it would require more bandwidth.

All that may be true, BUT whatever happened to the idea of conveying the
desired information

    ***** on a simple piece of paper with ink on it *****

 to be delivered by the Postal Service when the kit is shipped???????

I hate to think that I've been waiting for PCB trace diagrams for my K1 =
for
3.5 years because no one remembered that cheap and low-tech mode of
information transfer.

Apparently the mindset has been accepted that information must ONLY be
conveyed electronically.

I'm sorry to harp on this, but it seems from the e-mails that I've =
received
that I am far from being alone in wondering why this vital documentation =
has
been withheld.

73,
Mike / KK5F

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