On Nov 14, 11:06 am, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
NO new posts for an entire morning?

That's gotta be a first. :)

The temptation has been great to post political stuff but I will do so
only every now and then. I do not want to seem like certain people
who are unable to see the diff tween politics and boats.
I do want to rant about poorly made electronics though but will wait
for another time.
I will rant about poor electronics design, particularly the "cell
phone menu" type of design which seems to me to be user hostile.
Older devices such as analog alarm clocks were very easy to figure out
with a knob for various functions. Setting the time was just a matter
of turning the right one or maybe pulling it out. By contrast, modern
devices are not obvious at all and often require that you keep a many
page manual just so you can remember how to make them do the most
basic functions. This is a matter of basically poor design.
Compare the design of an older type of VHF with knobs for squelch,
volume, channel. etc with a modern one with very few real buttons that
must be pushed in weird order just to enable you to change channels or
turn down the squelch. Sure, you can remember how to do this when
calm but what about in an emergency? Could you do it while being in a
life jacket up to your mouth in the water so you could barely see the
display? See, this isnt just a matter of ease of use for us Luddites,
ti is a matter of safety.