[Elecraft] K4?

[Buddy Brannan]

Heh. News to me. I’ve been operating without displays for 31 years and change :-)

Although, I admit, voice-activated interfaces don’t seem to be terribly compatible with rooms full of ops shouting “CQ contest” … 

> On Mar 25, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Bert <ve3nr at bell.net> wrote:
> 
> You would still need some kind of display to verify the voice instruction
> or order to the radio, so one way or another you need something visual.
> 
> I guess an audio response to your verbal instruction is possible, but nothing
> you can see/verify after the fact.
> 
> A screen of some kind seems to be necessary for convenience - touch or otherwise!
> 
> Bert VE3NR
> 
> 
> On 3/25/2019 1:16 PM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>>> On Mar 25, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Bert <ve3nr at bell.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Phil,
>>> 
>>> Voice interface is OK with household electronics but I doubt we'll see it
>>> in our transceivers in the near future. The ham radio market is probably
>>> too small to make this feature commercially viable. Again, dollars and cents!
>>> OMHO!
>>> 
>>> Bert VE3NR
>> 
>> On the other hand, if your radio had a general-purpose Linux single-board computer designed  in, with Ethernet access, you could pretty easily include voice recognition either locally or internet-enabled at zero cost.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>> 
>> 
> 
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