You assume that touch screens are inherently unreliable. Try to convince
and F22 pilot of that, or a 777 gunnery crew. There is so much military
hardware that is dependent on touch screens that your argument just
doesn't hold up. This technology is decades old now. You may find some
poorly designed stuff that is unreliable. But, its due to poor design -
both physically and in software. Hopefully, if there is a touch screen
K4, the K3s will stay around for those that prefer buttons and switches.
Doug -- KJ0F
On 3/24/2019 7:35 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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