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

[Jim Miller KG0KP]

I have all ten of my radio manuals on my smart phone.  Not the easiest to 
use but they are always with me and I can always find something I don't 
remember how to do.  Electronic capability is great.  I print portions of 
most of my manuals for ready reference.  I spend a considerable amount of 
time in quickie restaurants waiting and always have manuals and procedures 
with me to read.

73, de Jim KG0KP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike" <nf4l at nf4l.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 95,Issue 50 - Electronic 
manuals


> It's nice to have both. The electronic one gives you a great ability to
> find things, it's easily updated, and takes up no space on the bookshelf
> or coffee table. And it's harder to misplace. It's dirt cheap compared
> to paper.
>
> The paper one is good so I don't have to either build on my operating
> desk, or carry a computer to the workbench, and it's handier for
> checking off steps, and reading in my recliner.
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
> On 3/28/12 9:30 PM, Scott wrote:
>> Personally, I don't really care how many trees are used up.  They grow
>> back.  I want a paper copy of the manual.  Then I can look up whatever I
>> want without a computer.
>>
>> Scott
>> KF5MHS
>>
>> On 3/28/2012 1:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>>> 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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