[Elecraft] New products

Sun Jun 5 17:05:13 EDT 2016

Adding $100 or more to add a touchscreen ui to a radio provides very little value in my view, is silly. The radio cost to value ratio is very low (meaning the value is high). The only exception I can see would be integrating the P3 as an option (hopefully enhancing with a micro computer/ssd for logging, digital, extended macros...etc, basically what I'm doing now with a raspberry pi). 

So that is if the cost is comparable to getting the P3.

Without the features of the P3 integrated; who changes settings so often that the included programmable macro buttons aren't enough? 

On June 5, 2016 4:35:26 PM EDT, John <jkramer at iafrica.com> wrote:
>Ha, Elecraft needs to progress at some stage, or get left behind.
>
>Touch screen UI is and has been extensively used - 3 billion touch
>screen smart phones
>out there, 1.2 billion touch screen tablets. I can see you all reaching
>for your keyboards
>to protest that phones and tablets are not the same thing. Well, touch
>screen UI have
>also moved over to commercial products, the military and airline pilots
>also use touch screen
>UI communication devices. If they are good enough to be used on
>commercial aircraft
>and in military applications, then it sure is good enough for ham
>radio.
>Touch screen UI panels having become so prolific, that they have
>dropped the cost enormously,
>resolution is picture sharp and reliability is extremely good. 
>Touch screens have huge potential, and almost unlimited versatility. If
>you need more knobs 
>or buttons on your rig, due to new features having been added……no
>problem with a touch screen.
>Just a firmware update to add a knob, button, slider or meter onto the
>screen.
>The problem with conventional rigs, is you run out of physical knobs
>and buttons when features
>are added to the radio. I see this in my KX3 - some knobs have three
>functions, and to try and
>remember what each knobs second or third function does, becomes
>difficult.
>
>Food for thought :-)
>
>73
>John
>
>
>
>
>On 5 Jun 2016, at 10:13 PM, Amateur Radio Operator N5GE <n5ge at n5ge.com>
>wrote:
>
>Don,
>
>I suspect that having redesigned a rig with touch screen
>capability the manufacturer would, in a short period of time realize
>the error of their ways.  Hopfully they would still have enough
>capital to revert to the original design and fire the person
>responsible for the change.
>
>On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:37:42 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Lynn,
>> 
>> Please tell us how a touchscreen interface can enhance usability for 
>> blind operators.
>> Elecraft has made a commitment for such usability for all their
>radios 
>> with those blind operators particularly in mind.
>> A GUI interface means nothing to those who cannot see it.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>> 
>> On 6/5/2016 3:16 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT wrote:
>>> A radio with only physical knobs and buttons severely limits future 
>>> upgradability, and leads to crazy button combinations to turn things
>
>>> on and off that weren't even a dream when the radio was originally 
>>> released.
>>> 
>>> Touch screens may not be always convenient, but they're much more 
>>> flexible than a silk-screened metal panel.
>>> 
>>> I realize that knobs and buttons are a religion for some, but it's 
>>> really time to lighten up, folks.
>>> 
>>> Either that or for Elecraft to release a rig with a whole bunch of 
>>> "empty" buttons and sell stickers to update the front panel when the
>
>>> firmware grows to need them.
>>> 
>>> On 6/5/2016 10:18 AM, Buddy Brannan wrote:
>>>> Also, can we pllease, for the love of all that is holy, not do the 
>>>> touch screen GUI? At least, not an exclusively touch
>>> 
>>> 
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