I made my computer's screen visible at all times to the examiners so they 
could see if I ventured away from the calculator.  As I said, it turns out 
that I never needed it anyway.

Mainstream calculators today are so complex that there is no assurance that 
something wasn't stored for later retrieval.  The examiners aren't going to 
be able to know how to totally clear all possible calculators unless they 
supplied the calculators for the test.

VE's need to be reasonable and it would be easy to see if you were doing 
something you shouldn't.  I'm not convinced that all VE test sessions are 
totally on the up-in-up.

In my opinion, VE's are kind of  like having the fox watching the henhouse. 
I know there are suppose to be two or three VE's there so as to prevent any 
cheating.  The VE's have the potential to be as honest or dishonest as the 
ones taking the exams.

Howard #3

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Brennan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Calculators on Technicians Test for the Blind


> I'm a ve and my take on using the Windows calc is that because it would be
> impossible (or nearly so) to insure that there were no stored answers in 
> there
> and no other test answers stored on the compute I would not only disallow 
> the
> calc but also the computer for any reason.  However, you might get a ve to
> supply a computer themselves if you absolutely had to have it for the 
> test.
>
> There's really no extremely difficulot math for the tech test.  The extra 
> is a
> bit different but since the question pool is out there and you can see the
> answers before the test it shouldn't really be much of a problem.
>
> If you can get your hands on a plain talking calculator it will be pretty 
> easy
> for one of your ves to insure it is clear in memory and that would work 
> well for
> you.  It would also avoid a lot of tech that is necessary with a computer.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Sun, 11 May 2014, Richard B McDonald wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:48:09 -0700
>> From: Richard B McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Calculators on Technicians Test for the Blind
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>>
>> Soon, I will take the  Technician Exam.  May a blind person use the 
>> Windows
>> Calculator?  Of course, it would be used only in the "Standard" mode just
>> for basic arithmetic.  I use JAWS on my laptop.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Richard
>> 



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