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Not sure why I needed to know about an Icom 7300 and am guessing it has a touchscreen. Leave the touchscreens
to the smart phones, IMHO. If I had a smartphone I wouldn't have a problem with its touchscreen. I have 3 laptops and have mice for all of them, can't stand touchpads either. Radios should have knobs, buttons, and switches. I feel confident that Elecraft wouldn't go there. Let Icom and whomever else make a radio with a touch screen. 73Bill K3WJV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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There will always be those that try concepts in places they have never been
used. But touchscreens have been around for a long time and a lot is known about them. The all time great defining application for them is in restaurants for wait staff to enter your food selection. Repetitive operations using touchscreens require physical use research which includes designing a mounting scheme that does not produce physical strain under normal operation. Normal accuracy of touch point taps has to be accommodated in screen apps. Large tap points that appear and vanish with an appropriate logic produce the great workplace improvements. E.g. the wait staff screens. The stuff behind successful touchscreen apps is mind boggling, often involving years even now decades of incremental research and program changes. This touchscreen editor I'm using right now on my smartphone is one such. Any one of the list of must-do's ignored and the app is likely doomed. Touchscreen radio? Not wishing anyone bad luck but they've bitten off quite a piece of work. Radio ops are very repetitive in contests. You'll never sell me a pure touch radio for contesting. Maybe a talky with the form factor of my iPhone 6+ with a Bluetooth linked manual control and separate Bluetooth linked amp/transmitter. The obvious (to me anyway) touch interface is to use a smart phone app that can also run on a tablet. Most people have already bought it and will replace it when it breaks for dozens of unrelated needs. Don't have to embed that cost and development into the radio. Let me use my house wifi or Bluetooth to link to my K3. The K3 change is to provide the interface. An internal board that listens to wifi and Bluetooth. All single chip stuff these days. Will be interesting to see what survives of touchscreen radio when the latest and greatest crowd has lost interest and moved on. 73, Guy K2AV On Friday, September 4, 2015, Bill Stravinsky via Elecraft < [hidden email] <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[hidden email]');>> wrote: > Not sure why I needed to know about an Icom 7300 and am guessing it has a > touchscreen. Leave the touchscreens > to the smart phones, IMHO. If I had a smartphone I wouldn't have a > problem with its touchscreen. I have 3 laptops and have mice for all of > them, can't stand touchpads either. Radios should have knobs, buttons, and > switches. > I feel confident that Elecraft wouldn't go there. Let Icom and whomever > else make a radio with a touch screen. > 73Bill K3WJV > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] -- Sent via Gmail Mobile on my iPhone ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Guy,
A very thoughtful perspective. It is indeed a very challenging user interface to design. I'm sure that there will be dozens of solutions that work on iOS and Android. Building Bluetooth into a radio and allowing full control through it would be the gateway that needs opening. I favor a touch enabled flat panel connected directly into the radio's microprocessor. Everything I've done so far shows that the latency through the serial port is a usability inhibitor. It's never going to feel natural until it is updating visual objects within a few milliseconds. What I'm envisioning is something like 20 to 30 objects that are completely customizable for size, color, function and location. The user could develop a particular layout and save it. Each band and mode can be a different layout. And then there is the interactive voice interface with commands like "go to fourteen zero seven zero mode PSK", "send CQ", "answer K0DXV" or "load contest configuration three". Might be handy to be able to just tell you radio what to do and watch the interface change to accommodate you. I expect that 10 years from now I'll walk into the kitchen in the morning and say "Mr. Coffee - Make a large regular coffee". My coffee maker will say "Right away" and the beans will start grinding. I'll then take my coffee into the shack and say "K5 on" and a marvelous radio will come to life... 73, Doug -- K0DXV The real key is going to be the degree of customization available. On 9/4/2015 3:25 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > There will always be those that try concepts in places they have never been > used. But touchscreens have been around for a long time and a lot is known > about them. The all time great defining application for them is in > restaurants for wait staff to enter your food selection. > > Repetitive operations using touchscreens require physical use research > which includes designing a mounting scheme that does not produce > physical strain under normal operation. > > Normal accuracy of touch point taps has to be accommodated in screen apps. > Large tap points that appear and vanish with an appropriate logic produce > the great workplace improvements. E.g. the wait staff screens. > > The stuff behind successful touchscreen apps is mind boggling, often > involving years even now decades of incremental research and program > changes. This touchscreen editor I'm using right now on my smartphone is > one such. > > Any one of the list of must-do's ignored and the app is likely doomed. > > Touchscreen radio? Not wishing anyone bad luck but they've bitten off quite > a piece of work. Radio ops are very repetitive in contests. > > You'll never sell me a pure touch radio for contesting. Maybe a talky with > the form factor of my iPhone 6+ with a Bluetooth linked manual control and > separate Bluetooth linked amp/transmitter. > > The obvious (to me anyway) touch interface is to use a smart phone app that > can also run on a tablet. Most people have already bought it and will > replace it when it breaks for dozens of unrelated needs. Don't have to > embed that cost and development into the radio. Let me use my house wifi or > Bluetooth to link to my K3. The K3 change is to provide the interface. An > internal board that listens to wifi and Bluetooth. All single chip stuff > these days. > > Will be interesting to see what survives of touchscreen radio when the > latest and greatest crowd has lost interest and moved on. > > 73, Guy K2AV > > On Friday, September 4, 2015, Bill Stravinsky via Elecraft < > [hidden email] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[hidden email]');>> wrote: > >> Not sure why I needed to know about an Icom 7300 and am guessing it has a >> touchscreen. Leave the touchscreens >> to the smart phones, IMHO. If I had a smartphone I wouldn't have a >> problem with its touchscreen. I have 3 laptops and have mice for all of >> them, can't stand touchpads either. Radios should have knobs, buttons, and >> switches. >> I feel confident that Elecraft wouldn't go there. Let Icom and whomever >> else make a radio with a touch screen. >> 73Bill K3WJV >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Touch screen on a transceiver:
- a vertical screen is not so easy to tap - a touchscreen probably drives down cost Arie PA3A ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Oh! There's the P7... calling CQ... and no one is coming back to him!! I'll be the first to work him... I can't believe this... Let me just use my cool touchscreen... I move his signal with my index finger into the passband... and then throw my call out... wait... what the... Oh no, the itty-bitty tip of my pinky accidentally touched the macro button to switch to the beam on 2 meters, shut off the antenna tuner, and reduce power to one watt... oh no, OH NOOOOO!!!
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Al,
When I can stop laughing I will surely need a glass of water. So well put. Gary -----Original Message----- From: "Al Lorona" <[hidden email]> Sent: 8/09/2015 7:42 AM To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) Touchscreens Oh! There's the P7... calling CQ... and no one is coming back to him!! I'll be the first to work him... I can't believe this... Let me just use my cool touchscreen... I move his signal with my index finger into the passband... and then throw my call out... wait... what the... Oh no, the itty-bitty tip of my pinky accidentally touched the macro button to switch to the beam on 2 meters, shut off the antenna tuner, and reduce power to one watt... oh no, OH NOOOOO!!! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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P7 ??? Would have more of an impact if it was the P5.
At least to some folks. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Al Lorona Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 2:41 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) Touchscreens Oh! There's the P7... calling CQ... and no one is coming back to him!! I'll be the first to work him... I can't believe this... Let me just use my cool touchscreen... I move his signal with my index finger into the passband... and then throw my call out... wait... what the... Oh no, the itty-bitty tip of my pinky accidentally touched the macro button to switch to the beam on 2 meters, shut off the antenna tuner, and reduce power to one watt... oh no, OH NOOOOO!!! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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The P5 would likely be Romeo ...
Seriously, touchscreens vary greatly, and a great deal seems to depend on the underlying software controlling and sensing it. ATM's are almost completely foolproof. They tend to have a small number of large touch areas on a screen. My Kindle Fire HD is OK, it's big enough that the "keyboard" has big enough touch areas for one with arthritic fumble fingers like me, however it's spell "correct" will make you look like you just arrived from another sector of the galaxy. My Samsung Galaxy 5 has a smaller keyboard of course, but surprisingly, I can text at a reasonable rate with my two largest digits and not make a lot of misteaks. Most will be corrected properly. Daughter bought a new laptop with Win 8. Wow! Many years ago, an earnest 2Lt described LAPES [it Googles fine] which we were going to use to get our gear out of the C-130 on missions. When he finished, one of my troopers put up his hand and when called on asked, "Just how drunk were the guys when they invented this." Applicable to Microsoft and Win 8 too. Fred K6DGW --Northern California Contest Club --CU in the Cal QSO Party --3-4 Oct 2015 On 9/7/2015 3:56 PM, Richard W. Solomon wrote: > P7 ??? Would have more of an impact if it was the P5. > At least to some folks. > > 73, Dick, W1KSZ > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Considering the charges Romeo has been convicted of and the charges he's
Awaiting trial on, he may not see the light of day in this century. 73, Dick, W1KSZ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen Sent: Monday, September 07, 2015 4:36 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) Touchscreens The P5 would likely be Romeo ... Seriously, touchscreens vary greatly, and a great deal seems to depend on the underlying software controlling and sensing it. ATM's are almost completely foolproof. They tend to have a small number of large touch areas on a screen. My Kindle Fire HD is OK, it's big enough that the "keyboard" has big enough touch areas for one with arthritic fumble fingers like me, however it's spell "correct" will make you look like you just arrived from another sector of the galaxy. My Samsung Galaxy 5 has a smaller keyboard of course, but surprisingly, I can text at a reasonable rate with my two largest digits and not make a lot of misteaks. Most will be corrected properly. Daughter bought a new laptop with Win 8. Wow! Many years ago, an earnest 2Lt described LAPES [it Googles fine] which we were going to use to get our gear out of the C-130 on missions. When he finished, one of my troopers put up his hand and when called on asked, "Just how drunk were the guys when they invented this." Applicable to Microsoft and Win 8 too. Fred K6DGW --Northern California Contest Club --CU in the Cal QSO Party --3-4 Oct 2015 On 9/7/2015 3:56 PM, Richard W. Solomon wrote: > P7 ??? Would have more of an impact if it was the P5. > At least to some folks. > > 73, Dick, W1KSZ > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Very good Fred. Windows 8 was a disaster for Microsoft. Pretty much
everyone involved with it left, retired or were fired. My last gig with the USAF was designing computer-based training for various systems. I had to actually learn the systems in order to figure out how to train people to use them. As a usability engineer, looking at critical AF systems... well I wished I had that line - it would have been perfect! Windows 8 can be fixed though. Add an extra menu system for $5 and it works just like 7. Windows 10 is better. But not better enough. Microsoft failed to get the complete message. Apple is wise. They have a separate OS for each platform. Windows 10 - like 8, does desktop and tablet equally badly. Various linux-based U/I's remain the very best for the desktop computer. Linux Mint Cinnamon is my favorite. Good touch screen systems move components around so what you need is there when you need them depending on what you're doing. Flat, touch-enabled, color screens will be the defacto interface for a long, long time. Fortunately, most everything needed to make the K-Line happy runs just fine on Windows 10. FTDI drivers, for the most part, are bullet proof on 10. Sigh. Now that I'm done testing Windoze 10, I'll put the PCs back in the closet and plug in my Macs again. Life will be so much easier... 73, Doug -- K0DXV On 9/7/2015 5:36 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: > The P5 would likely be Romeo ... > > Seriously, touchscreens vary greatly, and a great deal seems to depend > on the underlying software controlling and sensing it. ATM's are > almost completely foolproof. They tend to have a small number of > large touch areas on a screen. My Kindle Fire HD is OK, it's big > enough that the "keyboard" has big enough touch areas for one with > arthritic fumble fingers like me, however it's spell "correct" will > make you look like you just arrived from another sector of the > galaxy. My Samsung Galaxy 5 has a smaller keyboard of course, but > surprisingly, I can text at a reasonable rate with my two largest > digits and not make a lot of misteaks. Most will be corrected properly. > > Daughter bought a new laptop with Win 8. Wow! Many years ago, an > earnest 2Lt described LAPES [it Googles fine] which we were going to > use to get our gear out of the C-130 on missions. When he finished, > one of my troopers put up his hand and when called on asked, "Just how > drunk were the guys when they invented this." Applicable to Microsoft > and Win 8 too. > > Fred K6DGW > --Northern California Contest Club > --CU in the Cal QSO Party > --3-4 Oct 2015 > > On 9/7/2015 3:56 PM, Richard W. Solomon wrote: >> P7 ??? Would have more of an impact if it was the P5. >> At least to some folks. >> >> 73, Dick, W1KSZ >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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73, Eric Mod etc. elecraft.com _..._ > On Sep 7, 2015, at 8:02 PM, Doug Person via Elecraft <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Very good Fred. Windows 8 was a disaster for Microsoft. Pretty much everyone involved with it left, retired or were fired. My last gig with the USAF was designing computer-based training for various systems. I had to actually learn the systems in order to figure out how to train people to use them. As a usability engineer, looking at critical AF systems... well I wished I had that line - it would have been perfect! > > Windows 8 can be fixed though. Add an extra menu system for $5 and it works just like 7. Windows 10 is better. But not better enough. Microsoft failed to get the complete message. Apple is wise. They have a separate OS for each platform. Windows 10 - like 8, does desktop and tablet equally badly. Various linux-based U/I's remain the very best for the desktop computer. Linux Mint Cinnamon is my favorite. > > Good touch screen systems move components around so what you need is there when you need them depending on what you're doing. Flat, touch-enabled, color screens will be the defacto interface for a long, long time. > > Fortunately, most everything needed to make the K-Line happy runs just fine on Windows 10. FTDI drivers, for the most part, are bullet proof on 10. > > Sigh. Now that I'm done testing Windoze 10, I'll put the PCs back in the closet and plug in my Macs again. Life will be so much easier... > > 73, Doug -- K0DXV > >> On 9/7/2015 5:36 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: >> The P5 would likely be Romeo ... >> >> Seriously, touchscreens vary greatly, and a great deal seems to depend on the underlying software controlling and sensing it. ATM's are almost completely foolproof. They tend to have a small number of large touch areas on a screen. My Kindle Fire HD is OK, it's big enough that the "keyboard" has big enough touch areas for one with arthritic fumble fingers like me, however it's spell "correct" will make you look like you just arrived from another sector of the galaxy. My Samsung Galaxy 5 has a smaller keyboard of course, but surprisingly, I can text at a reasonable rate with my two largest digits and not make a lot of misteaks. Most will be corrected properly. >> >> Daughter bought a new laptop with Win 8. Wow! Many years ago, an earnest 2Lt described LAPES [it Googles fine] which we were going to use to get our gear out of the C-130 on missions. When he finished, one of my troopers put up his hand and when called on asked, "Just how drunk were the guys when they invented this." Applicable to Microsoft and Win 8 too. >> >> Fred K6DGW >> --Northern California Contest Club >> --CU in the Cal QSO Party >> --3-4 Oct 2015 >> >>> On 9/7/2015 3:56 PM, Richard W. Solomon wrote: >>> P7 ??? Would have more of an impact if it was the P5. >>> At least to some folks. >>> >>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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