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;Eau Claire
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Field Day Guide to K3 and P3 by K2QY--RECAP
Blaise Pascal once began a letter with:
"I am sorry I have had to write you such a long letter, but I did not have
time to write you a short one&
Re: Thanks Ron and the rest of the tech writers for the manuals.
And another tip-of-the-hat from me to Ron and the other manual writers. I also
appreciate the posts Ron makes on this list, and the KX3 Yahoo group. He
always writes clearly, technically sound, and never insulting. Throughout my
Blaise Pascal once began a letter with:
"I am sorry I have had to write you such a long letter, but I did not have
time to write you a short one"
He was quite right. Writing something short and concise takes much longer
than writing a lengthy tome.
73, Ron AC7AC
-Original Message-
Dav
I have read the manuals for the equipment I have, sometimes
several times. The last time I had a problem, poor RX
sensitivity on my K3 I ended up in the trouble shooting section.
It quickly lead me to the problem: I had switched a separate RX
antenna on, with nothing connected on the back of th
David,
5 pages is too long. If it cannot be covered in half a page, it will
not be read, and even that half page may not be read.
I made a 1 page note on K2 operation for Field Day and even then an
experienced digital operator put the K2 in Digital mode using USB
instead of RTTY mode and had
As a professional technical writer off and on since the early 1960's I can
say that the ONLY time my audience willingly devoured the written manuals
before diving in were the manuals I wrote for defusing live ordinance
(bombs) during the Vietnam war.
I write some of Elecraft's manuals, and custom
I also created a 5 page printed guide and leaving at the station
thinking it would be read. That was dumb, as I still had to answer many
questions that were all answered in the guide. Finally I just answered
those by just putting the guide in front of them and saying Page 3 or
Page 4. or what
nice job John... what did you guys run this time around.. 3a ?? how did
you do over all you think??
On 6/28/2013 9:01 AM, John Fritze wrote:
I gave my presentation on the Friday prior to Field Day. I had a couple of
questions on clarifications and afterwards several hams came up to me and
th
I gave my presentation on the Friday prior to Field Day. I had a couple of
questions on clarifications and afterwards several hams came up to me and
thanked me because they felt it was a big help. I especially focused on
the TAP/HOLD differences and the fact that most functions are clearly
marked
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