[ICOM] HRD-what is the attraction?

[Paul Manuel]

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Larry <w3oz at msn.com> wrote:
"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."


One of the best things about ham radio is the fact that I can indeed take my glowing tube rig and communicate with you while you sit behing a computer screen. Some people enjoy sailboating and I suppose they should buy a boat with an Evinrude or go to the nursing home. 

The wide spectrum of equipment and operating styles is a very appealing factor in ham radio and I hate to see that change.

As far as getting out the book to work a menu, that is part of learning and using the radio, which still matters to a lot of us.

To each his own, I say. 

To get this back to an ICOM topic, I've owned about fifteen ICOMs and none of them had tubes! But they all had knobs and switches.

73, Paul K4PDM