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PDA/handheld that can do CAD?

Problem is that almost none of the stuff written for engineers comes in Win Mobile. BTW, I am happily doing CAD and all other work at 800*600.

That's a rather expensive kind of radio. I prefer our $150 Siemens world receiver for that :-)

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With the right software it's OK, although I still prefer about 1600x1200 or better. :-) On my laptop (1280x800) I've spent time with each program, turning off unneeded menus, rearranging the control buttons, etc. to get the most usable real estate out of the available pixels.

(I love how IE7 touts one of its new features as "more available space!," since -- by default -- the menus at the top of the window take up two lines. I've had the same result applied to IE6 for years, it's just something you needed to configure manually rather than being the default... sheesh...)

You have to think of GNU Radio as more like a low-end development platform; it's dirt cheap compared to a modern digital spectrum or network analyzer!

I'm one of those suckers who starts to think that, hey, maybe $170 for a simple AM/FM radio isn't such a bad price (e.g.,

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, if it really does have quality engineering inside. :-)

---Joel

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Joel Kolstad

Oh well, I guess I'll drop the handheld idea and order a Twinhead Durabook this evening. At least those things are really tough, metal housing and all that. Not this plastics stuff.

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I prefer grampa's ol' tube set. Sounds much better :-)

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Greetings.

This is NOT a recommendation! I just happened to stumble upon

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where I noticed an advertisement for what seems to be a general purpose 2D/3D CAD program that runs on Windows CE devices. (They also sell versions that run on PCs, so you can spend every moment of your life, everywhere, drafting!) Perhaps you may wish to investigate? Or perhaps not.

Cordially, Richard Kanarek NOT affiliated with the Power people.

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Thanks, Richard. It looks like this is more for civil and mechanical engineers though.

Anyhow, I just gave up on the PDA/handheld idea and ordered another laptop. This time a ruggedized version (Twinhead Durabook D14RA). So it hopefully will last a long time in the field. The downside is that these metal enclosure laptops are heavy. IIRC the one that's coming will be around 7lbs and this doesn't count the power supply which you normally have to schlepp along for longer trips.

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