Seconded. Indeed, I tape a 3x5 card to an inside panel on each piece
of equipment I modify so I have a list of changes made that can't be lost.
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 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 <daleput...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The one issue that I see with on line manuals ... any ideas?
>>
>> --... ...--
>> Dale - WC7S in Wy
>>
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