[Elecraft] Parting shot

[Ed Muns]

The difference of opinion in this thread is mostly about different
perceptions of "the K3 manual".  Is it a compact, easy to access, reference?
Or, is it a training course?  Or, something in between or both?  People are
different and have different needs in a "manual".  While some people may be
looking for a different format K3 manual, the current structure is exactly
what I want.  What's right or wrong about the K3 manual is largely personal
preference.  Some people want a training manual on radio usability.  Others
know how radios work and simply need to know the specific K3 details.  No
matter how long or how heated this thread becomes, there is no single answer
as to what "the K3 manual" should be for everyone.

Ed - W0YK

Dave, AB7E, wrote:
> 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.
> >>
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