[Elecraft] Things to Come

2016-03-29 Thread Dauer, Edward
I was about to reply to a couple of posts on the UI topic when I read Eric¹s post (below), which makes a point I would underscore. Since many of us (not surprisingly) share aviation and hence avionics experience as well as amateur radio, that experience may be useful in reflecting on the topic of

Re: [Elecraft] Things to Come

2016-03-29 Thread lstavenhagen
Great post, IMO. One of the takeaways we could have from aviation is the notion of cockpit resource management (CRM), part of which is the idea that technology should reduce the workload of the pilot rather than increase it. Or, if there is an increase, it involves a reduction somewhere else (that

[Elecraft] Things to Come

2016-03-29 Thread Dauer, Edward
It may be that part of amateur radio equipment¹s future is already here, and clearly so in avionics (i.e. the electronic display and control interfaces for navigation, communication, and aircraft performance.) One major feature is the ³softkey² - a mechanical button with no exclusive function but