The IC-7300 display has hideous resolution. It can't even trace curves, just a bunch of bars. Reminds me of the original 2002 Orion sweep display.
Whatever Elecraft does going forward, please go to the highest resolution screen that is available and have the horsepower to draw a beautifully detailed panadapter trace. That's why pc-based panadapters are so popular right now. I'm skeptical about touch screen qsy. I can't see how you can quickly get right on frequency. IMHO, pandapter-centric visual tuning desperately needs a bandmap overlay with spotted stations (whether self-spotted or cluster) indicated to be truly useful. Barry N1EU On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 10:18 AM, lstavenhagen <lstavenha...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Wayne and Eric are probably already aware of the competition and working on > their own responses, but to me the UI advances I personally like are: > > - visual representations of the band: panadapters with spectrum displays, > waterfalls and the like > - being able to easily QSY to items of interest on the representation. > - get rid of the ghastly external computer. > > In the old old days, the curmudgeonly command to "listen listen listen!" > meant endlessly scanning back and forth with the tuning knob. Which is > perfectly fine and that's how I do it with my rigs right now, but this is a > whole new technology that can supplement that with a visual counterpart > like > "use your eyes!". > > So what I like in the 7300 that I think Elecraft could think about moving > towards: > - integrated spectrum scope/screen, rather than an external device > - touch-screen operation for QSY, close examination of segments, etc. > > What I don't like and would hope Elecraft would avoid in a competing > solution: > - messy implementation with all these horrible buttons around the spectrum > scope. > - horrible buttons also respond to touch, making goofs and accidental > misses > at the spectrum screen your usual iPad experience when you attempt to use > an > iPad for something useful. Screens and rotating things going all over the > place, making a mess. Blech! > > So one idea would be a regular knob operated UI for controlling the rig > itself and a separate spectrum screen on the side, for example, that > responds to both knobs and touch perhaps. That way, fat fingers won't > accidentally reset your rig into an unusable configuration like the iPad > interface, but you do have the touch-screen capability at the spectrum > scope, where fat fingers will do the least harm and skillful use will have > the most benefit. > > Anyway, some of my ideas, > > 73, > LS > W5QD > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/IC-7300-video-things-to-come-tp7615622p7615666.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 > Message delivered to n1eu.ba...@gmail.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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
