[Elecraft] K4?

[Doug Person]

What is most desirable when combining analog controls and digital 
interfaces is the ability to assign functions to various switches and 
buttons. These can be arranged around the screen so that the control 
labels can be "soft" while the controls themselves are "hard". E.g., not 
everyone uses squelch, or rarely change cw sending speed. Being able to 
customize your control configuration would be very desirable. Different 
modes, different functions assigned to controls. This way, the number of 
controls are minimized while providing the best combination of hard 
controls for a particular mode or operating environment.

Doug -- KJ0F

On 3/25/2019 11:56 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
>> On Mar 25, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Bert <ve3nr at bell.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> Wayne
> N6KR
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73 de Doug -- KJ0F