I'm not a fan of touch screens personally. Never have been, never will be. I prefer transceivers with discrete controls. When the money became available for a top of the line transceiver it was down to two: K3 or Yaesu FTDX 5000. The only reason I bought the K3s at the time was the Yaesu was about 2" wider than the opening in the desk (it previously held a Mark-V). I loved the plethora of physical buttons and the nicer display on that radio, but the extreme performance of the K3s, coupled with its size, ultimately sealed the deal.
Take the guts of a K3s, make some improvements as needed, add discrete band buttons, TCP/IP remote control, and I/Q out and that's all I'd ever want or need from a radio. - pjd -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Wayne Burdick Sent: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:56 PM To: Bert <[email protected]> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4? > On Mar 25, 2019, at 9:10 AM, Bert <[email protected]> wrote: > > Touch screens are unavoidable! The trick is to provide a full complement of "hard" controls for functions accessed most frequently, "in the heat of battle," as they say, while leveraging the touch screen for its versatility. Touchable fields can be added as a backup/shortcut to hard controls. A touch screen inherently offers immediate context-sensitive feedback and in many cases reduced time/effort. Examples include signal selection, zooming, etc. Zooming should also be done right, by resampling at narrower resolution -- is shouldn't just be a "blow-up" of the original pixels, as implemented on some existing radios. Ultimately, get what you pay for. That said, current prices for "high-end" super-radios are ridiculous; they're two to four times higher than necessary. Not only that, they're not configurable or upgradeable. Very un-Elecraft like. Wayne N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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
