[Elecraft] Proposal for change pages for manuals

[Don Wilhelm]

Pete,

If you download the newest manual, you will have the most up to date 
information that is printed in the manual.

Above and beyond that (and equally important), you should pay attention 
to the Firmware Release Notes.  They are on the website and also 
included on the K3 Utility Help Tab.
Those Firmware Release changes also constitute changes/additions to 
whatever level manual you have.  So if you mark up you manual starting 
with each firmware release after the date in the manual, you will have 
all the information in the manual.

I don't think it is practical for Elecraft to issue a new manual with 
each firmware release.

73,
Don W3FPR


On 5/23/2019 3:55 PM, N4ZR wrote:
> One of the nice things about Elecraft gear is the continuous improvement 
> that goes on, even years after initial release.  Unfortunately, these 
> improvements are often only documented at release time, and nine years' 
> worth (in my case) is hard to organize.
> 
> Recently, I ran into issues with my middle-aged K3 that turned out to be 
> caused by a change in functionality  undocumented in my manual from 
> 2010, which I inadvertently triggered.
> 
> Why wouldn't it be possible to put someone to work identifying which 
> pages in each manual have been changed or added and then producing 
> "change pages" that we could print out and insert - for example a new 
> page 6, and pages 6a, 6b etc., as needed to bring the manual back in 
> sync with the hardware.
> 
> It seems to me that this job, while boring, wouldn't be that difficult, 
> and the benefits to us customers seem obvious.