Well, most of the schools for the blind now either have multi-handicapped
kids, or are just closed altogether.  In Michigan after our school merged
with the school for the deaf there were lots of multi-handicapped kids,
and eventually they just did outreached, and now that is starting to dye
down now from what I have heard.  Even getting just a simple DX club
wouldn't yeild anything in 1991, when there were some multi-hamdicapped
kids there who could understand the idea behind radio hobbies, but a short
attention span.
        When I and another student started to use scanners there we were
allienated, and in many places people would tell us to turn them all off
in the buildings, and that soon dyed down too after I left.





On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Anne West wrote:

> Yes Barb.  It was a DX60 crystal controlled in the 80 meter novice band.
> Jeffrey, you brought up a good question.  I graduated in 1964.  There were a
> few hams behind me but I think in the late sixties, there were not any new
> licensees due to the change in attendees.  The school had many
> multi-handicapped students as did most of the schools for the blind.  Now,
> there isn't a school for the blind in Connecticut at all.
>
> The last time I checked, our club call K1QCK was listed in all of the call
> sign servers as "The Oak Hill Amateur Radio School."  Wow!  A school for
> hams???  Don't know how that listing came to be but it was so since the
> clubs beginning in 1960 or 1961.  Again, when Barb?
>
> Anne, K1STM
>
>
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