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Re: accessible radio
From:
Bob Martin <[log in to unmask]>
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Bob Martin <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 24 May 2013 12:08:04 -0400
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Well,They are working on the driving problem now.  Heard that an electronic 
sensing program has been developed and primary testing was encouraging.
Bob Martin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:01 PM
Subject: accessible radio


> The common theme I am hearing is a version of what I keep preaching.
> The only thing you have to give up to blindness is driving.  Everything 
> else
> is optional.  If you can go from
> "I can't do it because I can't see"!!!
> To:
> I can't do it because I don't yet know how to do it with out eyesight"!!!
> You have turned the corner.
>
> Now I technically know that their are other things I can't do besides
> driving, but the concept works.
>
> A major part of my attraction to ham radio, is that nobody needs to know I
> am a blind person, unless I tell them.  Besides, everybody is blind on the
> radio.
>
>
> H T Kaufman MSW LCSW
> Adaptive Technology Instructor

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