I've been following this thread since it came up yesterday. Seems to me
the bottom line here is "accessability".
The problem is there's no agreed upon definition of accessible.
Personally, I'm willing to trade some accessability for performance. In
other words, if a radio doesn't perform very well when compared to
others, I really don't want it no matter how accessible the thing may be.
If a radio works really well and does what I want it to do from a
performance standpoint, I'll go out of my way to learn how to use the
thing even if it requires some creativity in making it accessible. I'd
use a pc program if necessary to set the basic settings of the radio
which don't need changing very often.
Sure, full speech readout is great, but it simply isn't available on
many radios in the real world.
So, there's a choice to be made, and it really gets down to being a
personal one. I certainly don't fault anyone who insists on full speech
readout as apparently several of the Kenwoods have, but there are
obviously other options if you like a particular radio enough. Lloyd
and his ft950 is a perfect example of that. He found a system which
works for him and that's what it really is all about.
But, back to my main point of accessibility, I don't think this will
ever be really defined and will always mean different things to
different people.
that's what makes the world go round I guess. <smile>
Don w6smb
On 11/7/2010 9:59 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> perhaps.
> but almost every radio I've come across as a dedicated exit or clear button
> to return you to the home or stand by screen or whatever they choose to name
> it.
> Johns point about the license privallages is a valid one. However, with the
> qsy'er keypad, you can get cw read out of the frequency...there you go,
> instant accessibility for some. That, and you can manually enter
> frequencies, so if you think you might be outside your designated band
> edges, you can punch in the top or bottom of those edges again and start
> over...not rocket science.
> Yes, you need a qsy'er keypad, but you need a speech synth with other rigs
> too so it's not an added expense and not really an additional device.
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
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>> That might all be true, but this was before the days of multi mode buttons
>> and screens that time out if you don't perform a function within a certain
>> amount of time. But even that might be worked around if there could be a
>> button or sequence that would bring you back to the main screen, but that
>> is
>> not available on most modern day electronics that I know of. This is why
>> accessibility is so important now.
>> Harvey
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