I have to say, that I agree with all the other comments - a Braille copy
would be quite impractical, it would be thousands and thousands of pages
and it would take forever finding what you were after.

Text is the way to go. Maybe you should talk to the arrl about that or
buy the CDROM version and convert from that.

Paul
VK2HHH


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From: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
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Anthony
Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2002 1:10 AM
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Subject: brailling arrl handbook

Hi all:
As Mike stated, good schematic descriptions are essentual.  Tactal
diagrams
are useful as far as illustrating schematic symbols, but if the
schematic is
more than a few coomponents, the tactal diagram becomes less and less
useful.  As far as training sighted engineers and technicians in how to
describe a schematic verbally I have not had a problem.  Once they have
seen
a couple of examples, most people can do a good job.  I usually tell
them to
describe the diagram as they would describe it to someone over the
phone.
Its just a little different way for sighted folks to think about
schematics.
For the handbook, It would probably take a number of people working on
schematic descriptions for different sections of the book.  Bye the way,
I
think some of the schematic descriptions in the library of congress
taped
version of qst are not the best .
 They leave a lot of things hanging in there descriptions, and if you
are
not on your toes, you can get lost real fast.
Maybe some of us with some technical background could think about
getting
some kind of a bimonthly thing started.
I
think its needed.

Tony McCloskey, WA3CAO