Why would you go to such great lengths to do a wonderful job,
then cripple your design with an analog dial??

Why do people (including myself) buy self-winding watches with jeweled
movements? How about old Leica cameras?
It's the appreciation of a certain quality of machining. It is very easy to
design a synthesized receiver that has digital readout.........I have done
several of them. Now, to have a receiver that has mechanical tuning AND good
accuracy. That is quite a different story. Why would Dale do such a thing?
Because he wants to.

Pete