K3 Quick Manual in Chinese

[Johnny Siu]

Hello Eric and the Group,

Throughout the years, I have tried to promote both K2 and K3 to hams in Hong Kong and Mainland China (come on, I am NOT paid to do so).

I have recently sent my K3 to Shanghai, China to one of the radio clubs.  I immediately got into hot water.  As all you are awared, our K3 is quite a complicated radio and needs a learning curve.  Thorough reading and understanding of the 80 pages operational manual is nearly a must so as to fully appreciate the various fantastic functions of K3.

Although there are some well educated Chinese ham with English up to native speaker standard, major portion of the ham population in China has limited ability in understanding English. Reading the K3's operation manual could be beyond their ability.

Upon arrival of my K3 in Shanghai,  I have been receiving daily emails from the radio club members asking all sorts of questions about how to use K3.

I have no complaint in answering all these daily emails though I am not a member of the Elecraft team.  However, I wonder whether there will be at least some sort of quick manual or brief manual in Chinese so that I can pass to the interested parties in China.

While ham population is declining in most part of the world, the number of ham in China is growing rapidly.

Any advice or assistance from the group and Elecraft will be appreciated.

73

Johnny Siu VR2XMC


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[wayne burdick]

Johnny,

Thanks for your efforts to bring the K3 to the attention of the  
Chinese-speaking world. The more DX the better (hi).

I wonder if Bernie of "Nifty!" manuals fame would like to take this  
on? He wrote a very nice short-form operating manual for the K3, and  
even if he doesn't speak Chinese, he might know of a way to get it  
translated.

We could also supply the .doc version of the manual to a willing  
translator/ham. But it would be a huge job. We could make it  
worthwhile by exchanging a K3 discount (or a smaller kit) for  a  
manual translation.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Johnny Siu wrote:

> Hello Eric and the Group,
>
> Throughout the years, I have tried to promote both K2 and K3 to hams  
> in Hong Kong and Mainland China (come on, I am NOT paid to do so).
>
> I have recently sent my K3 to Shanghai, China to one of the radio  
> clubs.  I immediately got into hot water.  As all you are awared,  
> our K3 is quite a complicated radio and needs a learning curve.  
> Thorough reading and understanding of the 80 pages operational  
> manual is nearly a must so as to fully appreciate the various  
> fantastic functions of K3..

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