Message-Id: <20050628034714.UBLY8050.ibm62aec.bellsouth.net@[68.212.107.43]>

HOward wrote,
   >Now you are a real man!!!  Loging with a slate and keeping up
   >That's wonderful!!!
NOt really.  Just callsign class and section.  NOt difficult at all.
I use grade 1 for this type of thing, no number sign needed, use the
equal sign or full cell to separate callsign from class and section
which run together.  Not hard at all.  I could get two or three
contacts on a line that way.  NOw I was doing the hunt and pounce then
so it was easier, but I've done it when I was calling and working a
pile too.  OUr computers over at the club aren't equipped with any
access technology so my xyl does logging for me, but often she'll be
away at the little room or making us a coffee or food run and I just
do the slate.

OFtentimes I take written traffic with a slate just to keep in
practice.  One should keep one's slate skills up, it's the true blind
man's equivalent to a pencil.
My parents stressed this skill over the use of a braille writer from
the time I was quite young.

73 de nf5b



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