For contesters, K Pod vs. touchscreen is matter of thousands of repetitive movements during a contest. And if one must move one's hands away from a keyboard, what movement is the most accurate time after time, and is there a resting spot for the base of the hand to support the weight of the arm so that is not on the arm muscles the entire time.
There is a strip of desk between me and my left-handed trackball, my left and right hand keyboard and right hand keyer paddle to rest wrist or hand so my arms do not get so tired. I have arms on my chair which support my elbows at desk height. That means going qso to qso without repetitive effort to raise my arms. I can get to everything qso-to qso repetitive with horizontal arc, supported side-to-side movement. The touch screen implementations I have seen involve raising arms and free, unsupported touching well above the desk surface. Hand and arm musculature must be accurate to accomplish tasks. The KPod is possibly a replacement for the seven far right columns of keys on my Logitech K750 solar wireless keyboard. That being the case, one of the "mini" keyboards would do and the KPod fit in the vacated space. I will be reading about the KPod carefully now, and thinking. It's tempting. 73, Guy K2AV On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the K-POD functionality, it seems to me that the future is > modular. > > Already rigs like the K3 have an RF section, a control section, a signal > processing section and an I/O section that are largely on separate boards > in separate parts of the rig. And then there is the display section which > is a separate box such as the P3, PX3 or even a PC. > > Except for the extremely compact rigs, it seems to me the future will > bring increased options that can be plugged into each other according to > the operator's interests and needs. Even highly compact rigs may find > features such as frequency, spectrum, settings and other such items on > wearable displays like glasses or on a Braille readout. Couple in an earwig > mic/headphone and a smartphone size device that handles logging and I can > imagine someone sitting on a park bench staring off into space saying "CQ > Contest, CQ Contest, CQ Contes...". > > A few years ago such a scene would have people calling the guys with the > funny white jackets but today I doubt if most people would even notice. > > (BTW, sri about the K-NOB reference. That somehow slipped off of my > fingers unnoticed until Dick caught it. The little box does have a big > knob!) > > 73, Ron AC7AC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
