[Elecraft] Parting shot

[David Gilbert]

Sorry, Joe, but that "entitlement" comment is just garbage.  This thread 
originated with a comment from somebody that the K3 manual does such a 
poor job of being a manual (even Wayne refers to it as a "reference", 
not a manual) that it most likely costs Elecraft sales ... and that by 
definition refers to people who don't have the K3 sitting in front of 
them.  The manual also is organized so poorly (and it is clumsy enough 
to find stuff in it that you don't often use) that people need to resort 
to keyword searches through the pdf version to find their answer.  That 
certainly doesn't help dispel the perception out there that the K3 is an 
overly complex rig to learn.

The complaints about the K3 manual aren't coming from people who are too 
lazy to search a library for the book they need.  It's coming from 
people who are tired of finding the books scattered all over the floor.

Dave   AB7E



> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV<lists at subich.com>  wrote:
>>
>> While schools (and books, etc.) can certainly teach *facts*, I know
>> of no book or school in which students set quietly in rank and file
>> and learn skills without practice.  Even in mathematics and science
>> courses the teaching method requires *practice" to develop skills -
>> experimentation if you would call it that.
>>
>> No student worth a plugged nickel pays tuition to University and
>> expects to graduate the next day with the accumulated knowledge
>> and skills of the entire faculty without attending a day of classes
>> or spending hundreds of hours "in the laboratory."  Yet it is this
>> sense of entitlement I see in the "I want a manual that does ... "
>> refrain.
>>