You shouldn't be playing with your radio while driving anyway!!
Bert VE3NR
On 3/24/2019 9:43 PM, Dave Cole (NK7Z) 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 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
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