Hi Bob,

Did you actually join Handiham without verifying your disability, or did
they permit you to purchase the material without the need to join?  Please
tell me when you did this so I can make sure Karen is also able to enjoy the
same benefit.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Humbert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.


>I got their tape materials and Gordon West's CD from them and I didn't
> provide any proof of blindness.  I could have but I didn't have to.  Did I
> just slip through or do they simply take your word for it?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
>
>
>> Message-Id:
>> <20050116014521.CYLF1992.imf20aec.mail.bellsouth.net@[68.212.97.82]>
>>
>> nu7i wrote:
>>   >Handiham's web site indicates that membership is required in order
>>   >to purchase materials...
>> That is always as I understood it when I was checking into their
>> equipment manuals.  I had a 2 meter rig I wanted am anual for.  I
>> didn't want a cassette manual for the same reason I wouldn't want
>> cassette or audio file study materials.
>> SUch formats are not quickly searchable, hence the same weakness with
>> mp3 audio files.  Any word processor or text file viewer has a text
>> string search function making such doccuments  quite usable when one
>> wants to get to a certain piece of information quickly.  Manuals on
>> tape were good enough when that's all there was, I grew up with many
>> textbooks for school and college on tape, but the capabilities fr
>> surpass that era.
>> Halfwayu isn't good enough when you hold yourself out as "doing
>> something for the disabled" and hence I join no general purpose
>> disability organizations, handihams included.
>> I know folks they've benefited greatly and I applaud their efforts,
>> but when it comes to blindness they've only gone part of the distance.
>> I can see no reason to supply them with the doccumentation they might
>> need from doctors voc rehab etc. to prove I'm really blind to join
>> their organization and get a manual on cassette tape.
>>
>> My lady and I end up going through manuals for audio equipment for my
>> studio as well as ham gear and translating the weirdness as we go
>> making me usable quick refernce guides which I then buzz off on my
>> braille embosser.  sTill cumbersome but beats abridged study materials
>> and manuals on cassette.
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Webb
>>
>> Electric Spider Productions
>>                                            "They that can give up
>> essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
>>
>> --- Benjamin Franklin, NOvember 1755 from the
>> Historical review of Pennsylvania
>>
>>