[Elecraft] Radio Displays

[KENT TRIMBLE]

Solution . . .

Have your optometrist darken only the top half of your lenses.  That's 
what you see through anyway.  The bottom is used when you look down.

He can also remove tint from the bottom of already darkened sun glasses.

Cheaper and quicker than redesigning displays (which would probably 
never happen anyway).

I've operated mobile HF for years with half-darkened sun glasses without 
squinting and without instrument clusters or radio displays blacked 
out.  Likewise for gas pumps.

And . . . you're welcome.

73,

Kent  K9ZTV



On 5/9/2012 12:05 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I have installed a couple of radios in my cars (a Yaesu FTM-10
> and an Icom 706). Both radio displays black out when I wear
> polaroid sunglasses. (I have also noticed that the displays on
> fuel station pumps black out.) It would be a good idea for
> designers to consider sunglasses when designing radios for
> mobile or portable use. I think the E-Ink technology
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eink>  might be a good match for
> radio displays.
>
> Cheers - Bill, AE6JV
>