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Don Rasmussen

OT: PC Monitor resolution

Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be for monitor resolution these days.

My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.

Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these days for a PC XP machine?
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Dick Dievendorff

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

Don:

I've recently made a fair number of changes to the K3 Utility (still in
Field Test) so that all its dialogs would fit on a "netbook" that has a
screen size of 1024 x 600. Vertical space was the challenge.

Dick, K6KR

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Subject: [Elecraft] OT: PC Monitor resolution

Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than
1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be
for monitor resolution these days.

My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.

Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these
days for a PC XP machine?
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KK7P

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than 1280 pixels across?...
>
> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these days for a PC XP machine?

My WinXP Netbook is 1024 x 600.

73,

Lyle KK7P

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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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Don,

If you are sizing a webpage or a computer presentation screen, I would
suggest that 1064 x 768 is the lowest common denominator that one should
strive for in today's computer world. If you want to be safe with older
computers, then use 800 x 600 as the max. If it is ham related, I would
believe that many hams are using older computers at the hamshack
location (but some others are state of the art fast computers with
widescreen monitors). My own hamshack computer is running at 1680 x
1050 on a 22 inch widescreen display.

73,
Don W3FPR

Don Rasmussen wrote:
> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be for monitor resolution these days.
>
> My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>
> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these days for a PC XP machine?
>
>
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Alan Bloom

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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I keep my display set to 1024x768 simply because it makes everything
bigger for my 59-year-old eyes.

Al N1AL

On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 19:02 -0800, Don Rasmussen wrote:
> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be for monitor resolution these days.
>
> My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>
> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these days for a PC XP machine?

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Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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Matt Zilmer

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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1280 x 800 (WXGA) here, on a Samsung P460 laptop running XP. It's the
station computer, among other things....

Minimum res is probably 1024x768, across the board. Windoze has
supported this for years, and it's also known as XGA.

73,
matt W6NIA
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On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:25 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be for monitor resolution these days.
>
>My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>
>Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these days for a PC XP machine?
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Mike Reublin

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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1280 x 800 on a 22" LCD on my desktop. The laptop is 1024 x 768 on 15" LCD.

73, Mike NF4L

Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> Don:
>
> I've recently made a fair number of changes to the K3 Utility (still in
> Field Test) so that all its dialogs would fit on a "netbook" that has a
> screen size of 1024 x 600. Vertical space was the challenge.
>
> Dick, K6KR
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Don Rasmussen
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:02 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: PC Monitor resolution
>
> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than
> 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be
> for monitor resolution these days.
>
> My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>
> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these
> days for a PC XP machine?
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Guy, K2AV

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

800x600 is the safe resolution that supports (comes up on) any screen
including some old IBM notebooks that are amazingly still in use
mostly for non-business use, including my trusty old 760XL Thinkpad,
which I carry around for running antenna analysis and saving scan
graphs. W5BIG, when informed that 800x600 was still in use, had the
AIM4170 code sense that and confine to the 800 width. There was
really no problem in doing so. It still amazes me that people think
that we want to read book pages on a 16x9 format. The engineers have
movies on the brain.

One of the reasons I use it still is that it has a real RS232 serial
port (gasp) and it is flexible running off external batteries.

My on-the-desk monitor is a 30 inch 2560x1600 16x10 which allows me to
spread the entire page of my newspaper virtual edition across the
screen and read it like the paper edition. Or keep ten to fifteen
windows open AND visible. What I really wanted though was a 2560x1960
4x3 surface which I could run as 3x4. (Fat chance.)

73, Guy

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Mike <[hidden email]> wrote:

> 1280 x 800 on a 22" LCD on my desktop. The laptop is 1024 x 768 on 15" LCD.
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>
> Dick Dievendorff wrote:
>> Don:
>>
>> I've recently made a fair number of changes to the K3 Utility (still in
>> Field Test) so that all its dialogs would fit on a "netbook" that has a
>> screen size of 1024 x 600. Vertical space was the challenge.
>>
>> Dick, K6KR
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [hidden email]
>> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Don Rasmussen
>> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 7:02 PM
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: PC Monitor resolution
>>
>> Is anyone reading this list using a monitor or LCD resolution at less than
>> 1280 pixels across? Wondering what the lowest common denominator would be
>> for monitor resolution these days.
>>
>> My DELL LCD is nothing special and it goes to 1440 by 900.
>>
>> Anyone venture to guess at what the lowest common denominator would be these
>> days for a PC XP machine?
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Dick Dickinson

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

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I run a single computer for my radio and other use. I had tried a separate
computer dedicated to the radio, but found it was too much trouble keeping
up with both. Since my radio operation and computer operation are from the
same location, this works fine.

I run a 21", 1680 x 1050 main monitor. To the right, with my radio
equipment is a 19", 1440 x 900 unit. When I run programs for the radio that
stay up for some length of time, I slide them over to the 19" monitor.

While I have the 19" monitor hung in my console without a stand, it takes up
much more space than I would like. I'd really like a 12" or less monitor at
about 1280 x 720 resolution. That would take up less than half the area of
the 19". With all the specialty monitors for automotive DVD players and
other matters, I would hope that a stand-alone 12" or so monitor would be
easy to come by. Lots of searching has not produced a suitable unit. I'm
not interested in hacking some specialty monitor to do the job.

If I could move to 12" or maybe a little smaller monitor, I could find the
space to add...oh, say another K3 sized enclosure to my equipment
setup...maybe even two of them... An 11" wide, including frame (not
diagonal), unit would fill the bill nicely in my case.

73,
Dick - KA5KKT

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Bill Steffey NY9H

Re: OT: PC Monitor resolution

try shortcircuit.com

i bought a 7 or 8 " ntsc & svga 12 vdc for my console ,,

i run my LP-PAN & SRD-IQ spectravue for the K3 on it....
IT WORKS GREAT...\\ I forget the resolution,,,,,

here is a picture which took last year .....on a sehlf in my console ,,,,
http://picasaweb.google.com/Bill.SteffeySr/HamRadioNY9H#5284905977579405378

bill

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