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It is amazing what works and what you try. My swan 260 I ran mobile I
could tune by listening to the wine of the inverter. My elmac 67 I
could tune on 160 by tuning in noise on a cheapy transister radio. for
frequency, I had a 100 ke crystal calibrator and you counted turns of
the knob. I once lost track and called cq for about a half hour on
phone in the cw band. I guess no one heard me as I never got a pink
slip. One of the neatest things I ever got was a tuning aid built by a
man I think named Conway. he built them fgor blind people and it was
the best I've ever seen. I don't know how many he built, but he must
have been a neat guy as he never charged for these that I know of. You
hooked it across your meter and tuned for a plat dip or whatever.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On Fri,
13 Jun 2014, Richard B McDonald wrote:
> Hi Bill!
>
> OMG, this is *so* cool!
>
> I cannot begin to imagine how much harder it must have been in 1967 to do
> this. First, the accessibility of rigs then must have been zero. Then,
> where did one turn for help from a blind person's perspective? I can tell
> you that without this user group I would be totally floundering. Really, I
> wonder what it was like?
>
> 73,
> Richard KK6MRH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 7:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: I did it! - Trying to Make My First 2M QSO on TS-2000
>
> Richard,
>
> See how much fun it can be. You should have heard me trying to wire my
> micrope up for vox back in 1967. They called me green as apples and
> probably a few other things off the air.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
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