I dunno, this seems like it's worth trying. I think there are roughly these steps:
1. Identify the radios we care about. Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu, Elecraft, and FlexRadio's current HF offerings, plus the cult favorite Xiegu G90, seem like a good place to start. 2. Identify the controls we care about. I could throw together a quick list based on what I use and what radios commonly feature as front panel controls, and solicit additions from the list. 3. Identify the operator classes we care about. I think rag-chewing / contesting / weak-signal are good classes, plus CW / SSB / digital; I'd be open to hearing other additions. 4. Trawl through the manuals for the radios and note how each relevant control is accessed. This is tedious, but the kind of thing I would find oddly enjoyable. 5. Estimate or observe how frequently and/or urgently each operator class uses each control. We could throw together a quick estimate, and could later refine it by surveying or observing folks who inhabit those classes. 6. Do the math on what we get from steps 4 and 5 to generate some scores. Anyone interested in contributing to step 5? Cheers, Julie On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 8:34 PM Bill Rowlett <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds good, when are you going to start the list? > > Bill KC4IM > > > On Jun 8, 2021, at 8:14 PM, Thomas Warren <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Speaking of the Sherwood RX list, someone mentioned producing additional > lists…here is some food for discussion….. possibly not on this list. > > > > List 1) Radio Receiver (RX) …..already exists. > > > > List 2) Radio Transmitter (TX)…..already suggested. > > > > List 3) Radio Ergonomics (RE) - a list of what is desirable or which > knobs/ buttons used the most or are most > > important. Listed by different classes such as Contest radio, CW, > SSB, Weak signal….etc. > > > > List 4) Radio Usability (RU) - how many mouse-clicks or button-pushes is > takes to enable a wanted function, Macros OFF……etc. > > > > Probably, combine #3,4. > > > > Just throwing this out for rumination. :) > > > > > > Tom, W4TMW > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.qth.net%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Felecraft&data=04%7C01%7C%7C96b4c9ccd0cd45d26a4808d92adb97cb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637587944889297412%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HxsHqXMv1EVTuAFAR9phyqQdPfEf3XfMM1AjABBaw4w%3D&reserved=0 > > Help: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman.qth.net%2Fmmfaq.htm&data=04%7C01%7C%7C96b4c9ccd0cd45d26a4808d92adb97cb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637587944889297412%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=28aX3O5yKcz3eXy0l8ylViNpTK7IR4U6yCEzcac8dxI%3D&reserved=0 > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qsl.net%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C96b4c9ccd0cd45d26a4808d92adb97cb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637587944889297412%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=gd%2F2Uq5NZZ3vnW0dC5kk7P5tSBF3TfO80SMwgOogNrU%3D&reserved=0 > > Please help support this email list: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.qsl.net%2Fdonate.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C96b4c9ccd0cd45d26a4808d92adb97cb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637587944889297412%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=3SlMx80kbtyQKYFOksfKtj%2FrrmbHz02ERvtGQBkp92I%3D&reserved=0 > > Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
