Never thought of the abacus hi.  I list the traffic next to station holding
it and check it off with dots 2 and 3.  then just count it up. I once took
EAN Christmas eve because the ncs rig broke down hi hi.  That was wild.  

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of PATRICK GORMLEY
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 6:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: logging for nets

I regularly use my perkins when I control the hit and bounce slow nets on
Thursday morning.  hen I'm backup net control on the Northern VIrginia
Traffic net on 2-meters, I use an abacus to keep tabs on the numbers of
checkins and pieces of traffic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:54 PM
Subject: logging for nets


> Greetings,  Today during our Midwest and eastern roundtable net the 
> subject came up again about how people take notes, log, or whatever, 
> when acting as an NCS.  Lloyd uses notepad on his computer.  Tom and 
> others mentioned that they use perkins Braillers.  Cindy, N0MQO, and I 
> both use a brailler for keeping track of things on the nets that we 
> are control for on occasion.
> One person mentioned the possibility that he may use his Braille 
> sense.  I do have a braille display connected to my computer but so 
> far I haven't tried that method.  I did try it with my pacmate once 
> but it didn't work out as well as I might have liked.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts on this topic?
>
> Bob WA0KZB
>