Touch screen technology is just not good enough, very irritating and IMHO totally useless on a transceiver.
I hate it on my smartphone too! 73, Deni - F5VJC On 4 September 2015 at 08:28, Bill Frantz <fra...@pwpconsult.com> wrote: > What I have noticed over the years is that the UI hardware has gotten > worse. Keyboards are the most obvious example. I am a good touch typist. > When I started to learn CW (for the third time), I decided to use a > keyboard rather than trying to write with a pencil, since I can type > considerably faster than I can write. I quickly discovered that the > keyboard on my Mac laptop wasn't good enough for fast typing. I bought a HP > keyboard which isn't as good as the old IBM Selectric keyboards, but is > better than the Mac keyboard. All the touch screen keyboards I have used > have been much worse than either of these two keyboards. > > If you need tactile feedback, touch screens don't have any. > > For those who want to experiment with touch screens and the K3/K3s/KX3, a > programming project will let you use the programming interface to the > radios and a touch screen computer to prototype this kind of interface. > Perhaps Tom's (va2fsq) Win4K3Suite on a touch screen computer would do the > job without programming yourself. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | Truth and love must prevail | Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | over lies and hate. | 16345 Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Vaclav Havel | Los Gatos, CA 95032 > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to foxfive....@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
