K3: 21st century assembly "manual"

[Julius Fazekas n2wn]

Doug,

As a collector of photographs (good Daguerreotypes
aren't as easy to find as they once were), I think
more folks here would prefer doing them.

You can easily draw an analogy between electronic
construction and Daguerre's process. The folks who
succeeded had to be able to polish and coat the plates
(in the earliest days cut the sheets of copper to
size), build their own cameras and lenses, pose the
subjects, light the subjects, develop the plates (VERY
nasty chemicals involved), mat, mount, and seal the
images. Each image was unique. Exposure times were
long and often you see blurred images, particularly of
children. The images most sought after are from
individuals who did know how to draw, or at least the
concepts of drawing.

Homebrewers would have loved this. There are several
places where you can still learn the process and
current images command a healthy price.

My preference is still for a hard copy of the manual
and a PDF. If I need to refer to the manual, I don't
want to turn the computer on every time. The PDF
allows me the option to print out selected pages,
carry them with me, get them covered in coffee or Coke
and not need to worry about it.

Frankly, I think we waste more paper now than we did
ten years ago. Streaming video is too slow for my
taste as well, too much irrelevant stuff IMHO.

Cheers,
Julius
n2wn



"The announcement that the Daguerreotype "requires no
knowledge of drawing...." and that "anyone may
succeed.... and perform as well as the author of the
invention" was greeted with enormous interest, and
"Daguerreomania" became a craze overnight. An
interesting account of these days is given by a writer
called Gaudin , who was present the day that the
announcement was made."
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[crmabbott]

"..I would like to see streaming video for the assembly
  instructions..."

I know quite a few hams that are still in DOS mode and this would not be an
advantage putting forth the effort for that market.  I am sure with all the hub bub
on this the efforts toward making ready to ship and standard docs would be the
better way to go.  IMHO
--
73

Chuck   AA8VS
"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation,
we never left one up there!"


-------------- Original message --------------
From: "DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL" <[hidden email]>

> Hi all:
>
> Well, I would like to see streaming video for the assembly
> instructions. As (if) things change, simply add a modify the link for
> that portion of the instructions. And no real language issues!
>
> Photos are nice, but hey, kinda fossil-technology.
> de Doug KR2Q
>
> http://photo.net/history/timeline 
>
> and from http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/ 
>
> The first successful picture was produced in June/July 1827 by
> Niépce, using material that hardened on exposure to light. This
> picture required an exposure of eight hours.
>
> On 4 January 1829 Niépce agreed to go into partnership with Louis
> Daguerre . Niépce died only four years later, but Daguerre continued
> to experiment. Soon he had discovered a way of developing photographic
> plates, a process which greatly reduced the exposure time from eight
> hours down to half an hour. He also discovered that an image could be
> made permanent by immersing it in salt.
>
> Following a report on this invention by Paul Delaroche , a leading
> scholar of the day, the French government bought the rights to it in
> July 1839. Details of the process were made public on 19 August 1839,
> and Daguerre named it the Daguerreotype.
>
> The announcement that the Daguerreotype "requires no knowledge of
> drawing...." and that "anyone may succeed.... and perform as well as
> the author of the invention" was greeted with enormous interest, and
> "Daguerreomania" became a craze overnight. An interesting account of
> these days is given by a writer called Gaudin , who was present the
> day that the announcement was made.
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[AJSOENKE]

This (video) sounds like a project for  an enterprising individual or group
to document and produce as a video  dvd/tape.

I may make inquiries among the video production class at the  high school
where I teach technology.

I wouldn't put this task on the  back of the staff at Elecraft unless I was
prepared to pay a hefty charge for  it. But the students might find it
challenging and educational and maybe pick up  a small monitary incentive in the
process.

Al WA6VNN  




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[Ken Kopp]

Streaming video would be useless to me ... I couldn't "see" it.

The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always
will be.  (;-(

73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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[KK7P]

> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will
> be.  (;-(

Say it isn't true!  Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your
area?

Lyle KK7P

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