[Elecraft] Built-in features and side-effects

[G4ILO]

Dan Barker wrote:
> 
> What you said, except: Touch Screen! Why chase down the mouse?
> 
> Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Here's how I would like to see it implemented.  We need a "self-contained"
> panadaptor option from Elecraft.   By "self-contained" I mean an external
> box that connects to the K3 with a single cable and has connectors to plug
> in a keyboard, a mouse, and a standard LCD display.  I would like to see
> the
> associated software, in the default mode, dedicate the upper half of the
> LCD
> display to the panadaptor.  The lower half of the display should be a
> front
> panel extension for the K3.  This area can be used for the implementation
> of
> the "overflow" functions that are not possible to implement ergonomically
> on
> the hardware front panel.  These functions can be operated with
> programmable
> keys on the keyboard and/or by mouse clicks.
> 
>                 73
>                          ...   Craig  AC0DS
> </snip>
> 
> 

OK, I'm going to play devil's advocate here. You can already do all that
with computer software and an SDR interface to the IF output. I never see a
picture of a shack, never mind a DXpedition or contest site, where a
computer isn't being used. So why would anyone need a dedicated and probably
complex and expensive box?

Okay, perhaps you can't have touch screen just yet, though the next version
of Windows is rumored to have this. But in any case, could you click as
accurately on a signal with your finger as you could with a mouse?

-----
Julian, G4ILO  K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392
G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com
Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf
-- 
View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-K3--Built-in-features-and-side-effects-tp17762047p17765647.html
Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com.