[Elecraft] Sherwood's receiver performance table updated

[Kevin Stover]

Ditto we still don't use them.
Our users have a choice of laptop or iPad/Surface other than a desktop 
thin client on our VM Ware network.
90% choose the Win7 laptop. They're more expensive, slower, and break 
more often than the thin client but not as often as the iPads. The 
Surface's are new so no experience base with them yet. Our hardware 
group absolutely hate touch screens. I'm a Network Engineer...I have no 
use for them either.

My brother does IT for a school district that equipped all of their 
middle school kids with cutting edge iPads. 700 of them. My brother had 
to get good at replacing the very expensive coated touch screens that 
the evil empire said mere mortals couldn't replace. He got no help from 
Apple other than expensive parts. That experiment lasted three years and 
they switched to Chrome books.

I guarantee as sure as I'm sitting here *that touch screen will fail 
within a year...if not sooner*, and you've got no chance to fix it 
yourself. I can order parts from Elecraft for all my rigs and fix them. 
No sweat.

I'm curious why is direct sampling SDR's like the 7300 are supposed to 
be the second coming why Icom stuck with the traditional superhet 
architecture on it's "flagship" 7851? Maybe they realize the technology 
is at least 5 years away from being competitive. Everybody is ignoring 
W4TV's 800lb Gorilla, ADC overload.

On 4/26/2016 5:28 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
> Coat it however you want...  Doesn't stop dirt and grime being put on
> the screen possibly scratching and/or gooping up the corners and edges...
>
> I've been in IS/IT for 25+ years...  Screens are not for touching.
>
> Bottom Line...  I'll stick with buttons, dials, and switches, thank you.  :)
>
> ______________________
> Clay Autery, KG5LKV
> MONTAC Enterprises
> (318) 518-1389
>


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