[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 95, Issue 50 - Electronic manuals

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

While electronic manuals might save trees and PDF's are really great for
searching for information, that won't speed up the delivery of manuals for
new products or updates to manuals significantly.

99.9% of the time (and cost) required to create a new document is in the
writing, illustrating, validating and editing. That doesn't change. 

Toward Dale's question, I have a binder for my K2 that I built in 2000 that
has copies of all the many mods and changes that have been made to it over
the years. My K2 has never had a failure, but if it did there'd be repair
log in that binder too.  I have considered doing that electronically,
perhaps with a memory stick, but the one advantage of paper is that it does
not require any technology to read it. 

73,

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

How about you save the current online manuals and other info to a $4 USB
Memory stick and put it in the box?  Maybe Elecraft could even supply a
"Elecraft" branded USB Memory Stick with the latest stuff on it.  Then you
would have a record that was consistent with when you bought your radio.
Elecraft could even save the Calibration data to that memory stick as well.
Personally I'd rather have that than the printed manual, and I suspect it
would cost far less given printing and shipping costs.

Another possibility would be if Elecraft kept archival copies of all manuals
online.

Personally I can live without printed manuals -- I like the PDFs, but I do
see Dale's point and the cheap USB Flash Drive seems like a cheap way.

73, Bob, B4SON


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Dale Putnam <daleputnam at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> The one issue that I see with on line manuals ... any ideas?
>
> --...   ...--
> Dale - WC7S in Wy
>
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