[Elecraft] K4?

[Peter Dougherty]

I'm not a fan of touch screens personally. Never have been, never will be. I
prefer transceivers with discrete controls. When the money became available
for a top of the line transceiver it was down to two: K3 or Yaesu FTDX 5000.
The only reason I bought the K3s at the time was the Yaesu was about 2"
wider than the opening in the desk (it previously held a Mark-V). I loved
the plethora of physical buttons and the nicer display on that radio, but
the extreme performance of the K3s, coupled with its size, ultimately sealed
the deal. 

Take the guts of a K3s, make some improvements as needed, add discrete band
buttons, TCP/IP remote control, and I/Q out and that's all I'd ever want or
need from a radio.

 - pjd

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of Wayne Burdick
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:56 PM
To: Bert <ve3nr at bell.net>
Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4?


> On Mar 25, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Bert <ve3nr at bell.net> wrote:
> 
> Touch screens are unavoidable! 


The trick is to provide a full complement of "hard" controls for functions
accessed most frequently, "in the heat of battle," as they say, while
leveraging the touch screen for its versatility. 

Touchable fields can be added as a backup/shortcut to hard controls. A touch
screen inherently offers immediate context-sensitive feedback and in many
cases reduced time/effort. Examples include signal selection, zooming, etc.
Zooming should also be done right, by resampling at narrower resolution --
is shouldn't just be a "blow-up" of the original pixels, as implemented on
some existing radios.

Ultimately, get what you pay for. That said, current prices for "high-end"
super-radios are ridiculous; they're two to four times higher than
necessary. Not only that, they're not configurable or upgradeable. Very
un-Elecraft like.

Wayne
N6KR



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