[Elecraft] Touch-screen displays

[Bill Frantz]

What I have noticed over the years is that the UI hardware has 
gotten worse. Keyboards are the most obvious example. I am a 
good touch typist. When I started to learn CW (for the third 
time), I decided to use a keyboard rather than trying to write 
with a pencil, since I can type considerably faster than I can 
write. I quickly discovered that the keyboard on my Mac laptop 
wasn't good enough for fast typing. I bought a HP keyboard which 
isn't as good as the old IBM Selectric keyboards, but is better 
than the Mac keyboard. All the touch screen keyboards I have 
used have been much worse than either of these two keyboards.

If you need tactile feedback, touch screens don't have any.

For those who want to experiment with touch screens and the 
K3/K3s/KX3, a programming project will let you use the 
programming interface to the radios and a touch screen computer 
to prototype this kind of interface. Perhaps Tom's (va2fsq) 
Win4K3Suite on a touch screen computer would do the job without 
programming yourself.

73 Bill AE6JV

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