[Elecraft] IC-7300 video - things to come

[Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT]

There is one overwhelming reason that we'll see touchscreens:

As radios become even more software driven, we'll see more and more new 
features added (like ESSB).

The engineers and developers have to find a way to add those functions 
to existing buttons (push this button 3 times, or go to a menu, or 
something), provide a radio with blank buttons (which makes that new 
radio look unfinished, or a "stripped" version of a more expensive rig).

... or use a technology that allows buttons to be painted on the screen 
-- so the front of the radio can evolve along with the radio itself.

I'm not ready for a rig that requires a separate device/computer to run.

73 -- Lynn

On 3/28/2016 8:22 PM, Rick Robinson wrote:
> I foresee Bluetooth or newer technology tablets or phone size units that
> control our radio as an option to control our radios . So touchscreen
> control seems like more than a fad.