[Elecraft] OT: Trade K2 for Drake TR4CW/RIT or C line

[Darrell Bellerive]

On April 11, 2007 09:04 am, ron wrote:
> The radios ARE user friendly. You probably grew up in solid state era
> (like me) where the radios do the work for you. (menu-driven) We all
> have become accustomed and expect the "machines" to work for us. I too
> am guilty of that (heh heh).
> It takes me only a few seconds to tune the radio once the learning curve
> was mastered. There are NO menus or other stuff to learn.

One function per control and big widely spaced knobs. Give me rotary 
switches any day over push buttons. The old rigs had great ergonomics. 
Small rigs are good for mobile or portable operation, but for home use a 
nice big front panel is such a pleasure to use. Menus are simply a way to 
reduce the size, number of controls, and cost of a rig.


-- 
Darrell Bellerive
Amateur Radio Stations VA7TO and VE7CLA
Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada