What is most desirable when combining analog controls and digital
interfaces is the ability to assign functions to various switches and
buttons. These can be arranged around the screen so that the control
labels can be "soft" while the controls themselves are "hard". E.g., not
everyone uses squelch, or rarely change cw sending speed. Being able to
customize your control configuration would be very desirable. Different
modes, different functions assigned to controls. This way, the number of
controls are minimized while providing the best combination of hard
controls for a particular mode or operating environment.
Doug -- KJ0F
On 3/25/2019 11:56 AM, Wayne Burdick wrote:
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
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