[Elecraft] Icom IC-7300

[Buddy Brannan]

> On Sep 2, 2015, at 7:51 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> Icom recently released news about the upcoming IC-7300 <http://icomamerica.com/en/products/amateur/hf/7300/default.aspx> to be available by the end of the year.   A completely software-defined radio.  Looks like a real game-changer.
> While the K3S is a nice upgrade, I think the tide is slowly shifting to touch sensitive, menu-driven, color displays.

Gods, I sure hope not! Sounds like a bloody nightmare to me. Guess the blind guys won't be buying Icoms. Change for change's sake if you ask me, which you didn't. *Grumble grumble gripe gritch* And get off my lawn. 
> 
> I certainly hope the Elecraft is looking at this and considering its implications.

Yeah, I hope so too. I then hope that Elecraft will say "Screw all this touch screen nonsense". I mean, unless they plan to write an eyes-free interface for it. Which I'm sure Icom has not. It's sure gonna suck if something breaks that pretty touch screen sometime. How about having tactile controls and voice output so that drivers who put these things in their mobile stations can watch where they're aiming their cars instead of looking at their radios? Just a thought, but who listens to me? 

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