[ICOM] HRD-what is the attraction?

[harrytheham at verizon.net]

  John,

I use HRD extensively. However, I use it not to tune or push virtual 
buttons but as a tool for auto frequencey and auto mode tracking so all 
relevant data is automatically entered into my logbook, digital mode 
panels, qsl cards, etc. It allows me to focus on enjoying the radio 
instead of typing in all sorts of data into various applications and 
forms. In the same regard I can click on a listing in HRD's DX cluster 
window and the DX station and all it's data are entered into a logbook 
while changing the radio's frequency.

I've never gotten use to using a computer to tune by rig, scan the 
bands, etc. But it provides other convenciences beyond that.

harry we1x

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:23 AM, John Geiger wrote:

> Everywhere I see Ham Radio Deluxe being metioned-in email posts, in 
> QST articles, on eham.net, and I have to wonder what is the attraction 
> of it?  I tried computer control a couple of years ago with a Kenwood 
> TS-B2000 and soon grew to hate it.  Tuning around with a mouse was 
> awkward at best.  I like a tuning knob to turn, and other buttons to 
> turn and push. SO what am I missing?  What makes computer control so 
> much better than physical control?  From the attention paid to HRD, it 
> seems that I am the only one who feels this way.

73s John AA5JG

     

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