Not in love with the one in my 2018 Camry. Very difficult to use while driving.
I'm getting better at using voice as a result. jim ab3cv On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 9:52 PM W2xj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
