Phil,

I'm always more comfortable with knobs and switches than I am with menus,
which is why I like my 751A and am reluctant to change to something
else.  Unfortunately, though, menus are the way of the world today, and if
we want the newest features we just have to suck it up and learn to live
with them to some extent.  I'll get just enough of a handle on them to
change what I want to change, and leave the rest alone.  While I like the
idea of using the computer to set things up, I really don't want to tie my
radios to the computer.  However, I am interested in the R75's transceiver
capabilities.  I have to read some more, but from the little I've read, I
think it can be used to control my 751A, and that makes for some
interesting possibilities, especially on AM where I want to use synchronous
detection.  Lots to explore here.

Steve

On Tuesday 1/4/05 22:57 Phil Scovell wrote:

>Steve,
>
>You have an individual set button which serves the purpose of getting into
>the menu structure or switching between a long wire or coax antenna.  There
>is no doubt that if a blind guy would memorize, or write down all the
>various menu choices and how they would be changed, it could be done without
>sighted help.  You use the same memory up and down keys on the bottom right
>panel of the radio to make changes in the menu settings.  Like I said, I'm
>sure you can do all that through the software but I'm getting too old to
>screw around with all that software crap now.  Plus, I had my computer tied
>to my transciever for years for different functions and it was a pain in the
>butt horsing around and changing everything all the time.  I like just
>grabbing knobs and pushing buttons.  I hate tuning rigs and amplifiers now,
>too, so that shows you how old I'm getting.  I also refuse to climb my tower
>any more for fear it might bend or buckle due to wait.  My weight.  Worse, I
>might experience a heart attack while up there and they would have to call a
>hospital rescue helicopter to come and get me.  How embarrassing.  I hope to
>live long enough to own a good 80 or 90 foot crank up tower where I just
>push a button in the shack and away she goes.  Then, and only then, I will
>get me a 2 element 80 meter beam.  Of course, if we happen to have one of
>those huge corona mass ejection's on the Sun that we had last year that,
>fortunately, was faced away from the earth, there won't be any more ham
>radio once that mass reaches earth.  I mean, when 100,000 square miles of
>the surface of the sun blows out into space, you best be living way under
>ground because it is about to get hotter than an Arizona summer.
>
>Phil.
>K0NX