So much for tongue in cheek humor... ;) John K7FD
> On Mar 24, 2019, at 6:52 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 scre e > 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
