[Elecraft] new KPA1500 Manual

[Fred Jensen]

Agreed, the Elecraft PDF's are very good, and I do edit my K3 PDFmanual 
with notes.  I've never printed it. Since the K3 is an essentially 
mature product [I haven't made a FW update in a couple of years ... I'm 
not even sure there has been a release in that period], nearly all the 
notes I add are "my" notes about things I've learned, obscure menu 
settings, and the like.

That said, in 2019, the term "searchable" is sometimes overrated. 
Searchable implies that you have some idea of what you're looking for.  
Often, at least for me, a spiral bound book that lays flat on the desk 
and I can write in with a table of contents and an index is ideal.  I 
bought the spiral bound version of the KE7X book for just that reason.  
I have a station journal [notebook - old engineering habit] and most of 
my annotations are to a volume/page where I've written about or recorded 
something.  It may be 2019 but the latest and greatest doesn't always 
replace the tried and true.  CW may be a good example. [:-)

New subject:  The quoted post below is all I got on the Elecraft list.  
I don't know what prompted it.  It will lubricate the information flow 
on the list if the relevant posts in a thread are left in ... at least 
the one you're replying to.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 4/8/2019 11:34 AM, K8TE wrote:
> Right on!  First, I have over two decades of experience with replacing
> printed pages in Air Force Technical Orders.  What a PITA, but necessary.
> Today, those are distributed electronically and printed locally.  Often,
> it's not possible to make a change that affects only one page since the
> change, often an addition, pushes  information on to the next page.
>
> Thanks to Elecraft (not all manufactures do this), we can annotate the PDF
> versions with the latest firmware notes, ideas from this reflector, our just
> our own pointers.  The PDF then becomes a current, searchable document of
> great value!
>
> As I point out in my ham radio presentations, it's 2019.  We do a lot of
> things with computers now.  Join the 21st century.  The technology has
> certain advantages, especially if you back-up your data.
>
> 73, Bill, K8TE
>