Well said, Barry, ... but... the real question is:
Will you really buy it if they made it?
A LOT of hams SAY what they want in a new radio, but THEY WILL NEVER BUY
ONE. They plan to nurse their 25 year old TT ParaOmniOctoCentarion
well into the future, fixing it themselves, expecting TT to somehow make
a profit just stocking parts. That was a strong undercurrent in John
Henry's missives a few months back. I have lunch every Friday with a
swell gang of older hams - all of whom already own their last
transceiver. TT MUST follow the money to remain viable in a difficult
economy - those who stay the course and nurture radios as old as their
children do not represent the market for new radios.
----------------------- JHR ---------------------
On 11/1/2014 8:56 AM, Barry N1EU wrote:
The hf rig front panel evolved its knobbed interface over a period of
nearly 100 years. It works. I don't need no steenkin'
smartphone/touchscreen/mouse/whatever modern interface for my radio. Sure,
let the radio hardware be the latest greatest direct digital sampling, but
keep my user interface classical.
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