This message was forwarded to me by a non-ham friend who knew of my 
ham radio interests.

Please contact Dick directly if you can help him.

K5XU


-----Original Message-----
From: -K2RFP- [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 12:19 PM
To: Mike Duke
Subject: Ham Radio With Morse Code For The Blind.

Mike:

I do ham radio with Morse code and I am an active member in the 
Straight Key Century Club. The SKCC is an internet based club which 
does ham radio using simple mechanical keys to produce the Morse code 
as it was in times past.

The club has monthly contests and for people to get involved in that 
they need to keep a log of their work. Since I also write computer 
programs for a hobby I have written logging software tailored to the 
requirements of our club. Back in February I was contacted by a club 
member who is blind and was having some difficulty with my software. 
After a few email exchanges I realized that it would be best to write 
a new program from the ground up and address the difficulties a blind 
person is faced with.

After a few weeks I got the program to about 85 percent complete in my 
estimation and the club member I was working with backed out of the 
project because of time demands at his job.

I have since found someone else to do some volunteer testing but 
nothing has come from that yet.
So I asked friend Bruce if he could find some leads for me in hopes I 
could find someone to work with me on this project. Here is what I am 
looking for: a blind ham that does CW (Morse code) as a regular part 
of his/her ham activity; and is currently a member of SKCC or willing 
to become one so they know how the contests work and what the 
requirements of the logging software are.SKCC is run by volunteers and 
is completely free. Information is on the internet about it.

So if you think you know of someone that can help me have them send me 
an email  [log in to unmask]

Thanks.
Dick. k2rfp
SKCC Sprint Manager and Software Developer



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