Not everyone can use a mouse with the same precision; consider those with poorer eyesight or rheumatism in their hands.
Tracking someone on a satellite for (say) 60 seconds while they drift in frequency (CW or SSB modes) would be much easier with a knob than a mouse - at least it would for me. I am always looking at alternate input devices but am sure that a knob like the Yaesu FT-950's with a few surrounding buttons with be an excellent asset. Sadly Yaesu make these in-house (or so I am informed) so they are not freely available. FWIW I have an ACER 230H touch-screen monitor here, I want to find time to experiment with touch screen, I'm sure precision tuning can be accomplished using the new Windows 7 API's. Simon Brown, HB9DRV http://sdr-radio.com > -----Original Message----- > From: flexradio-boun...@flex-radio.biz [mailto:flexradio-boun...@flex- > radio.biz] On Behalf Of Michael Tondee > > I know amateurs are used to knobs and that change in comes hard for > the amateur community in general but the absolute almost fervent > affinity that some folks have about knobs confounds me. I can't believe > a little round piece of plastic is such a big stumbling block for so > many when it comes to SDR. I experimented with mouse tuning with HRD > even when I had a radio with a VFO knob. Then, once I tired the POWER > SDR demo I knew it wouldn't be a big deal for me. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
