[Elecraft] The case against touch screens

[Jim Miller]

Not in love with the one in my 2018 Camry. Very difficult to use while
driving.

I'm getting better at using voice as a result.

jim ab3cv


On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 9:52 PM W2xj <W2xj at w2xj.net> wrote:

> Old news. They have existed for a while.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 24, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Dave Cole (NK7Z) <dave at nk7z.net> wrote:
> >
> > I suspect touch screens are just a fad for rigs...  Imagine one in your
> moving car...
> >
> > 73s and thanks,
> > Dave (NK7Z)
> > https://www.nk7z.net
> > ARRL Technical Specialist
> > ARRL Volunteer Examiner
> > ARRL OOC for Oregon
> >
> >> On 3/24/19 5:35 PM, Al Lorona wrote:
> >> Thaddeus sits down at the rig. Today is the day Bouvet is supposed to
> come on the air, and thousands of hams around the world must be tuning
> around at this moment trying to be the first to work the DXpedition.
> >> He gets a feeling and tunes low in the band, turning the knob as if he
> were breaking into a safe. His intuition pays off: he hears a weak signal
> tuning up, and then... a callsign. It's Bouvet! Instant rush. Instant
> clammy hands. He reaches to tap the Split button on his fancy new rig's
> touch screen. He taps again. The screen does nothing. Oh no, not now, touch
> screen. Please recognize my finger... please! Bouvet turns it over, but
> nobody has heard them yet, so Bouvet calls again, and while Thaddeus is
> tapping frantically, time slows down, four seconds feel like four hours,
> and still the dim-witted screen does nothing as Thaddeus begins all the
> usual finger gymnastics that people do when they're trying to make their
> device understand that they in fact want it to do something. The radio sits
> there stupidly, the DX stops calling, and then the pileup mayhem begins.
> Thaddeus sits there, stupefied, wondering why those &#^+! engineers at
> Elecraft decided to put a $@_% touch scree
>  n on an otherwise perfectly good radio.
> >> For this reason, I will never buy a radio with a touch screen. Ain't
> gonna do it. So Elecraft, you've been put on notice.
> >> Thank you,
> >> Al  W6LX
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