[Elecraft] No RTFM

[Rich NU6T]

My favorite review of a manual on the end of the spectrum opposite from 
Elecraft manuals:

       "The technical manual is a successful impediment to understanding."

Rich
NU6T

On 6/25/2011 8:16 AM, Tony Estep wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Dave KK7SS<kk7ss at frontier.com>  wrote:
>
>> A loong time ago (>30 years!) I was instructed to write a manual...I was of
>> the personal opinion that this would never be fully read if at all...
>
> Ah, I was once a manual writer. I ran out of money while going to college
> and took a job writing manuals for a small engineering firm that made
> transistor testers for Texas Instruments. Later, after I went back and
> finished school, I was looking for a job and applied at a big electronics
> company in St. Louis. The guy who interviewed me informed me that most of
> the applicants had submitted writing samples that were unintelligible, and
> the few whose writing passed muster couldn't figure out how the equipment
> worked, so they didn't know what to say. He unrolled a huge, blue-line,
> hand-drawn schematic and pointed to one of the stages. "What's that?" he
> demanded. "Schmitt trigger," sez I. Whereupon he jumped up and began
> gleefully pumping my hand. "Hooray!"
>
> But after I got home and thought about it, I realized that the last thing in
> the world I wanted to do was to write those manuals, and I wound up going in
> a completely opposite direction.
>
> Tony KT0NY
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