And they should do that because... ?


....because a lot of the expense of these devices is in the user-interface,
buttons, readouts, etc. If you have a small QRP type of transceiver, it
seems like a Palm would save a lot of the expense while maintaining the
portability.

Is this such a radical idea?

spdevel wrote:
And they should do that because... ?

...because a lot of the expense of these devices is in the user-interface,
buttons, readouts, etc. If you have a small QRP type of transceiver, it
seems like a Palm would save a lot of the expense while maintaining the
portability.

Is this such a radical idea?

Not so much radical as impractical. The reason that radios haven't
become exclusively software controlled is the same reason you don't
drive your car using a mouse and a keyboard - it's clumsy and
impractical. So to make a black box radio with a PC i/f would actually
be much more expensive because almost no one would buy it.

73 ... WA7AA


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spdevel wrote:
And they should do that because... ?

...because a lot of the expense of these devices is in the user-interface,
buttons, readouts, etc. If you have a small QRP type of transceiver, it
seems like a Palm would save a lot of the expense while maintaining the
portability.

Is this such a radical idea?

Not so much radical as impractical. The reason that radios haven't
become exclusively software controlled is the same reason you don't
drive your car using a mouse and a keyboard - it's clumsy and
impractical. So to make a black box radio with a PC i/f would actually
be much more expensive because almost no one would buy it.

73 ... WA7AA


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