Hi colin,
I'm glad yu liked it. It was great to be able to record it. I hope to add a
recording of a Delta IV launch sometime pretty soon. I've got one, but it
isn't as good as i want it to be.

73

Ron Miller


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of colin McDonald
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 11:23 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Blind scanner enthusiast list

very neat stuff.
it's cool to hear it on something other than tv.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Blind scanner enthusiast list


> Hi Jim,
> Nope, not your barber but I did attend the Orientation Center For the 
> Blind
> in Albany, so I do know the area. I Grew up in Vacaville, Alameda and 
> Castro
> Valley, returning to Vacaville in 9th grade and staying there until I was 
> 33
> (going to college in El Cajon during that period). My immediate family is
> still in California, in Roseville and the greater San Francisco bay area.
>
> I had the privilege of hearing the final launch of discovery, from the
> causeway. I recorded it in stereo and, if you wish, you can hear it at:
>
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16056628/Space%20Shuttle%20discovery%20STS133%20lau
> nch.mp3
> .
>
> I've also got a much less well edited but still very good quality 
> recording
> of the sonic boom the Discovery made as it passed over the Tampa bay area 
> on
> a previous mission. You can hear this at:
>
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/16056628/Shuttle%20Discovery%20STS119%20Sonic%20Boo
> m.mp3 .
> I apologize ahead of time for the abrupt ending of this recording. I 
> stopped
> the recorder soon after the sonic boom. The jingling and tinny bangs you
> here right after the boom are the sounds of our cats and dogs all running
> through the "doggie door" back into the house to escape the big boomy 
> thing
> that sounds like its coming from everywhere and might get them (smile). 
> They
> had been happily hanging out with us in the backyard, not knowing we were
> waiting for the big booms.
>
> You'll notice that you actually hear two sonic booms as the shuttle passed
> overhead, it's because the wings and the tail assembly (if I remember
> correctly) each generate their own booms (the delta-winged lifting body of
> the shuttle generates one and the vertical tail assembly generates the
> other).
>
> I hope you, and anyone else on the list who checks them out, enjoys the
> recordings, though they may not be as nicely edited as I'd like, the sound
> recorded is pretty good.
>
> 73
>
>
>
> Ron Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 11:22 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Blind scanner enthusiast list
>
> Hi Ron, I am in El Cerrito near San Francisco.  I used to have a barber
> named Ron Miller, but it's probably not you! I guess, from your email, 
> that
> you are in or around Tampa Fl.  I visited my wifes cousin there over a 
> year
> ago waiting for the last space shuttle to launch in November.  About 20
> minutes before we were going to leave to drive to the Cape, they announced

> a
> technical glitch in the hydrogen umbilical and that pause lasted I don't
> know,  about 5 months or more.  Best 73, Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Miller <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 21:42:39 -0400
> Subject: Re: Blind scanner enthusiast list
>
> Hi Jim,
> It would be good to see you on the monitoring list.
>
> Where are you located?
>
> 73
>
> Ron Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 1:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Blind scanner enthusiast list
>
> Hi and thanks Ron.  Sounds like an interesting list.  I have been 
> listening
> to Public Service radio stuff much longer than I've been a ham.
> Still do it
> even though it has become much more challenging what with agencies going
> trunked and then digital trunked on top of that.  I'll try to subscribe, 
> but
> I am reading your email on my Apex which does strange things when reading
> braille.  I'll check out your email on the PC and see if I can subscribe
> using it.  Best 73, Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ron Miller <[log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date sent: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 20:52:16 -0400
> Subject: Re: FreeScann software and handheld scanners?
>
> Hi Jim and everyone,
> I don't have immediate info about the software but will ask some VI 
> friends
> who do use it.
>
> Regarding interest in scanner receivers, you may be surprised at how many
> hams are also comms monitors (or perhaps you won't be so surprised).  if 
> you
> are interested, there is a list which has been recently started 
> specifically
> as a place for scanner hobbyists who are blind to gather and swap ideas,
> info, etc.  It is the "Monitoring Blind" list and you can send a blank 
> email
> to:
> [log in to unmask]
> to subscribe.
>
> I hope to see you there.
>
> 73
>
> Ron Miller
> N6MSA
> Dunedin, Fl.
> USA
> SKYPE: arjay1
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Jim Gammon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FreeScann software and handheld scanners?
>
> Hi list, I am wondering if anyone uses the software called FreeScan to 
> work
> with the newer trunking scanners like the PSR or Uniden scanners.
> If so,
> how accessible is the software with screen readers? Also, does anyone have
> experience with the Uniden
> 396 handheld scanner? I have the PSR 500 handheld which works fine but am
> interested in the capabilities of the Uniden scanner as well.  If you 
> want,
> write me off list because it probably doesn't interest everyone here, even
> though it is dealing with radios.  Jim WA6EKS
>
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