[Hammarlund] HQ-180A alignment

[Richard Knoppow]

    I had the advantage of working with well written manuals at 
Hewlett-Packard years ago. At one point they began to farm out manuals, 
they were awful and that idea did not last long.
    Manuals require a great deal of skill to write plus the information 
must be available to the writer. All too often the designers on a 
project move on when its finished and are not available to the tech writer.
    I am not sure of the dates but it seems to me that Hammarlund was 
suffering from financial problems at about the time of the HQ-180 so its 
likely some bean counter got in the way of a decent manual being 
written. Also, when did the company move from N.Y., a move would have 
upset everything. Of course, its the customers who suffer. Being cheap 
to save a company often can kill it. Killing the goose.
    So, it may not be poor technical writers who are responsible. Of 
course, poor products, poor support, poor anything is the fault of 
management and no one else.

On 12/20/2023 9:51 AM, Les Locklear wrote:
> The manual (all of them) are poorly written. Technical writers think 
> that "everyone" should think like they do...

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Richard Knoppow
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