Old news. They have existed for a while. Sent from my iPad
> On Mar 24, 2019, at 9:43 PM, Dave Cole (NK7Z) <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suspect touch screens are just a fad for rigs... Imagine one in your > moving car... > > 73s and thanks, > Dave (NK7Z) > https://www.nk7z.net > ARRL Technical Specialist > ARRL Volunteer Examiner > ARRL OOC for Oregon > >> On 3/24/19 5:35 PM, Al Lorona 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 >> scree n 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
