You raise a good point here. Here is a true life story about visual angle. I worked at a company where they gave a bunch of clerical types 21 inch monitors. They hated them. The application was 3270 emulation for reading character output from a mainframe. Because they were fairly close to their faces and wide the visual angle was wide. They had to move their head side to read the screens.
The point is, the bigger the monitor, the further away it should be to see the whole thing. A 10 inch monitor might actually be a pretty effective size. Bigger is not always better. Elecraft owners know that. David K0LUM At 6:40 PM -0700 3/27/12, ai6ii wrote: >Impressive as the P3 Large Screen version is to look at, I wonder what it is >like to use. That is, with the P3 and mini screen, my eyes are viewing the >screen and the controls in close proximity. I can watch my finger press the >FN3 (set to center the MRK A), reach to the right slightly and turn the >SELECT knob to the signal I wish to pounce on next, while still seeing the >signals on the mini screen. Then a quick push of FN4 (programmed to QSY to >save wear and tear on the Select knob), and I see see the K3 jump to the new >frequency centered in the P3 screen. This operation is constant for me >(except when using CW Skimmer to control the K3 frequency) and my eyes never >leave my hands....or whatever the saying is. > >Seriously, I am having a difficult time imagining how it would be if the >screen I had my eyes on was large and above the P3, while the control >buttons like REF LVL and SPAN, the FN keys and the Select knob were in well >down away from the screen and I had to keep moving my eyes between the two >to 'make the P3 work it magic'. Is this a problem for anyone, or is it just >me? > >The reason I ask is because the bucks I have saved for the yet to be offered >KAT500 seem to be burning a hole in my pocket and may be trying to get me to >buy P3VGA while I wait! > >..mike AI6II > >-- >View this message in context: >http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-VGA-How-to-use-it-tp7411994p7411994.html >Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > >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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
