I’ve been using touchscreens for 35 years. My experience is not what you describe. Actually it is very much the opposite. Mechanical switches are the least reliable.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 24, 2019, at 8:35 PM, Al Lorona <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thaddeus sits down at the rig. Today is the day Bouvet is supposed to come on > the air, and thousands of hams around the world must be tuning around at this > moment trying to be the first to work the DXpedition. > > He gets a feeling and tunes low in the band, turning the knob as if he were > breaking into a safe. His intuition pays off: he hears a weak signal tuning > up, and then... a callsign. It's Bouvet! Instant rush. Instant clammy hands. > He reaches to tap the Split button on his fancy new rig's touch screen. He > taps again. The screen does nothing. Oh no, not now, touch screen. Please > recognize my finger... please! Bouvet turns it over, but nobody has heard > them yet, so Bouvet calls again, and while Thaddeus is tapping frantically, > time slows down, four seconds feel like four hours, and still the dim-witted > screen does nothing as Thaddeus begins all the usual finger gymnastics that > people do when they're trying to make their device understand that they in > fact want it to do something. The radio sits there stupidly, the DX stops > calling, and then the pileup mayhem begins. Thaddeus sits there, stupefied, > wondering why those &#^+! engineers at Elecraft decided to put a $@_% touch > screen on an otherwise perfectly good radio. > > For this reason, I will never buy a radio with a touch screen. Ain't gonna do > it. So Elecraft, you've been put on notice. > > Thank you, > > Al W6LX > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
