"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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It means exactly what it said.
Going to a resolution higher than 1280 X 1024 shows me no difference.
Not on that monitor it won't do it, but my 19s will. The only thing
that happens is the icons get smaller. When used for photo editing I
can see no difference between 1280 X 1024 and 1600 X what ever.

You have weird monitors. The difference between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 is
quite noticeable on my monitors. In some respects, it actually makes photo
editing harder, because the images are smaller on the screen, but that's
easily addressed by using the zoom control in the editing program.

As far as icons and such getting smaller, you can go into the Advanced
properties for the display and set the desktop to use "Large Fonts". This
makes fonts, icons, and other UI elements larger (you can also pick a custom
percentage to increase the size). This combined with the higher resolution
allows the desktop to look basically the same as it does at the lower
resolution, but without as many "jaggies". Everything looks crisper and
clearer.

I don't know if you wear reading glasses or not. However, I will grant that
if the limiting factor is your vision, I can see how going to a higher
resolution won't improve things (and will make things harder unless you
switch to larger fonts).

sigh It's all about distance. With 1500 watts into an antenna less
than a 100 feet away (with an ERP of 15,000 watts), I am in a far
stronger RF field than even a 50,000 watt AM station down the block,
but there are few AM stations around that run any where near that
level.

If I recall, 50KW is the nighttime power for this station. It's 100KW
during the daytime. In any case, I was told by the FCC person I contacted
that a commercial AM broadcast station has a "ground wave" that produces
basically the "ground zero" power at significant distances from the station.

Since you're an amateur broadcaster (or maybe even professional), I assume
you know more about this than I've learned. However, if you are having no
interference at all from your radios, I think it's plainly obvious that the
RF I'm receiving is stronger than what you are. The AM stations gets into
everything in the house: phones, VCR, satellite receiver, and the computer
monitors, to name a few appliances receiving interference.

Can you hear your radios on your phone when you transmit?

As for touch sensitive controls I take it you are referring to the
touch points on the screen instead of mechanical controls. Then I'd
agree that we are talking about apples and oranges.

I am referring to exactly what I said I was referring to. The VX2000 has
touch sensitive *controls*. The buttons that control the monitor (NOT a
touch-sensitive screen) are non-mechanical. There are no mechanical
controls on the monitor, anywhere.

Like I said, the caveat about RF interference would apply to very few
people. As near as I can tell, my situation (along with my neighbors') is
very uncommon.

Pete