Kenneth Waites wrote: > > I vote for giving the operator control rather than giving the software > control. It is part of the adventure of the hobby to own a piece of gear > that is complex enough that it is a challenge to us to squeeze out the > last ounce of performance. I vote for having thousands of permutations > and combinations of features at my control. > Having read the recent QST review of the Flex 5000 I can see that a lot of people agree with you. I, personally, don't. I prefer a piece of equipment or a software program that does its job extremely well but is simple to operate without a lot of configuration options. I, as the user, am willing to adapt to the program or equipment if necessary.
This "ultimate configurability" has been the curse of Windows software development, and has resulted in bloatware like Microsoft Office that has so many options that I have often seen it cited that most users only know 20% of them. Some of the best software I ever used was DOS or early Windows software, and I could probably still do most of what I want to with it, if it was still possible to run it. In the same way, about the only thing wrong with the radios of 20 years ago was their performance, not their ergonomics. I do not want to see radios going the same way as computer software. Already we see on this reflector people asking if it is possible to do things the K3 can already do. Most people can't remember everything they read in the manual (even if they read it in the first place) and this is probably more true of radio hams than computer users in general since most of us are getting to the age when it isn't so easy to remember stuff. Now what was the point I was making...? :) ----- Julian, G4ILO K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392 G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com KComm for K2/K3: www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3%3A-AFX%2C-NR%2C-5-khz-tuning%2C-9-Khz-Tuning%2C-AGC-SLP%2C-et.-al-tp18043288p18043723.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
