[Elecraft] The case against touch screens

[Bert]

You shouldn't be playing with your radio while driving anyway!!

Bert VE3NR


On 3/24/2019 9:43 PM, Dave Cole (NK7Z) wrote:
> I suspect touch screens are just a fad for rigs...  Imagine one in 
> your moving car...
>
> 73s and thanks,
> Dave (NK7Z)
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> 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 screen 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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