[Elecraft] Other Radio lists thoughts.

[Julia Tuttle]

I dunno, this seems like it's worth trying. I think there are roughly these
steps:

1. Identify the radios we care about. Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu, Elecraft, and
FlexRadio's current HF offerings, plus the cult favorite Xiegu G90, seem
like a good place to start.

2. Identify the controls we care about. I could throw together a quick list
based on what I use and what radios commonly feature as front panel
controls, and solicit additions from the list.

3. Identify the operator classes we care about. I think rag-chewing /
contesting / weak-signal are good classes, plus CW / SSB / digital; I'd be
open to hearing other additions.

4. Trawl through the manuals for the radios and note how each relevant
control is accessed. This is tedious, but the kind of thing I would find
oddly enjoyable.

5. Estimate or observe how frequently and/or urgently each operator class
uses each control. We could throw together a quick estimate, and could
later refine it by surveying or observing folks who inhabit those classes.

6. Do the math on what we get from steps 4 and 5 to generate some scores.

Anyone interested in contributing to step 5?

Cheers,

Julie

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 8:34 PM Bill Rowlett <kc4atu at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Sounds good, when are you going to start the list?
>
> Bill    KC4IM
>
> > On Jun 8, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Thomas Warren <mtnest at hartcom.net> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of the Sherwood RX list, someone mentioned producing additional
> lists…here is some food for discussion….. possibly not on this list.
> >
> > List 1) Radio Receiver (RX) …..already exists.
> >
> > List 2) Radio Transmitter (TX)…..already suggested.
> >
> > List 3) Radio Ergonomics (RE) - a list of what is desirable or which
> knobs/ buttons used the most or are most
> >       important. Listed by different classes such as Contest radio, CW,
> SSB, Weak signal….etc.
> >
> > List 4) Radio Usability (RU) - how many mouse-clicks or button-pushes is
> takes to enable a wanted function, Macros OFF……etc.
> >
> > Probably, combine #3,4.
> >
> > Just throwing this out for rumination. :)
> >
> >
> > Tom, W4TMW
> >
> >
> >
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