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

Thu Mar 29 10:21:37 EDT 2012

I have all of the Elecraft manuals of interest on my iPad (I just got a new iPad to replace my original iPad and the resolution makes reading these new manuals a new experience).  I could never read them on my iPhone.

73, phil, K7PEH

On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Jim Miller KG0KP wrote:

> 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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