[ICOM] HRD-what is the attraction?

[Larry]

I have used HRD and full computer control of all my rigs. Most of my
equipment is mounted in a rack just to the left of my main operating
position in my shack. I look at a very wide LCD monitor with many Ham
applications running at the same time. HRD, an audio application to record
and play back off air, a DX cluster, a spectrum analyzer, my PowerMaster
software display, games, and many more all at the same time and at real
time. 

I am not a kid. I started in amateur radio in 1958 as a teenager. I will
stop learning new things when they put me under the grass. Old hams get
stuck in doing things as we always have done them. How boring! Let's face it
if there were not hams who like new stuff we would all being doing just CW
on old sparks. Yes most of the young folks are using computer that do
everything for them, and it is not going to change. When was the last time
you drove your team of horses to the city?

If you do not like using a mouse, use a tuning knob like the Griffin
Technologies knob. It works just like the tuning knob on your rig but even
more flexible. Most new rigs, mine is an Icom Pro III, have menu after menu.
When you want to do something, you have to get out the book and look up
maybe 2 or 3 different menus to get the rig to do something we seldom or
have never done. With HRD you can have a button or slider to do just about
anything the software in the radio can do with a click of the mouse. That is
much better than dragging out the manual looking it up in the index and then
trying to figure out what to do, and maybe mess something else up. If you
are against computers I suggest you stick with an older tube rig, as most
new rigs are really computers with RF unit in them and the trend is not
going to stop. 

Human intellectual and technological progress is not going to stop any time
soon. Either get on the bus or get a ticket to the nursing home. I am not
responding to any one person on this thread, but just a general comment, so
don't take offense to my comments please.

Larry
 
The real Wizard of OZ
 
http://www.w3oz.com
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From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of John Geiger
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:24 AM
To: yaesu_ft-450 at mailman.qth.net; yaesu at Mailman.qth.net;
icom at Mailman.qth.net
Subject: [ICOM] HRD-what is the attraction?

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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