Harvey, Mary is still in Iowa and went on to get additional degrees.  She is
Section Traffic Manager here and  the manager of the Iowa 75 meter net.  Her
call now is k0yl.  I believe that she did do some engineering for a radio
station for a short time.
 

Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Harvey Heagy
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 11:13 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Challenges taking FCC exams

This guy sounds like a real loser.  It is my understanding that the FCC at
one time allowed us to take the first class license, but then changed their
mind.  In the early 70's, there was a woman named Mary Jane Keener who lived
in Iowa at the time who wanted to take it.  The NFB was trying to help her,
and among other things pointed out that there were blind people who held the
first class license for a long period of time.  When the FCC threatened to
revoke all those outstanding first class licenses is when they filed suit
and eventually won.  Of course that was in the days when the NFB was truly
an advocacy organization before it attempted to redefine advocacy for its
own purposes and began worshiping the federal goose that laid the golden
egg.
Harvey