[time-nuts] SDR Radio Opinion- Next Question...

[J. Forster]

The trend to add more and more fearures to electronic gadgets is a real
pain, IMO.

I have a Garmin Nuvi and you basically have to do a royal flush of every
stored parameter to simply clear the 'trail of bread crumbs'.

The thing has so many modes that it is really annoying to use and there
seems to be no way of turning unwanted features off. For example, if you
simply want to pan the display, likely as not the address of where you
touched will pop up.

Furthermore, the positions are not reliable. If you are close too, but not
on, a road, or are on the sidewalk going against traffic, like AutoCAD it
will 'snap' to where it thinks you should be. Off road mode is better.

YMMV,

-John

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> Got some examples?  Without specific you risk sounding like some old guy
> says "to days music is no good the old stuff was better"  Which of course
> was every year for the last three hundred years.
>
> But it could be that much software is poorly designed. It is so easy now
> to
> write something and publish it so many people do and the markethas to
> decide what's good and not.  But you can't talk about generalities.     So
> which specific software don't you like.
>
> One thing about Open Source SDR software, if you don't like it, you can
> change it.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Burt I. Weiner <biwa at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Chris and all,
>>
>> It seems to me that a lot of the new software is being developed by
>> people
>> who don't live in the real world or don't use the end product in the
>> real
>> world - or maybe not at all.  Maybe I'm just old and senile, but a lot
>> of
>> the stuff I'm seeing is not intuitive, stable or even consistent.
>>
>> Is the State of The Art exceeding the state of the need?
>>
>> Burt, K6OQK
>>
>>
>> --
>
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
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