In fairness to BARD, I contacted them about certain articles  that are excluded.  I don't think it has to do with discrimination.  I was told that some of the material is very technical and they are not prepared to handle it just yet.  They might have been blowing smoke but I take the position  of being appreciative about the service.

I don't work for BARD by the way.  I simply see that there are things we need to consider before stating that things are discriminatory and wrong.  Our sighted peers  will always get the stuff sooner than we do because it is the nature of this environment.   We just need to ask the ARRL to provide this service in Audio because BARD does have to receive the material and transcribe it.  It takes less time to get the printed material out than the audio especially for a third party.

I am not stating this is  right for now but we have to try to be a little fair with something that we receive that is a free service.

For now, I am just thankful to receive the information and hope that we can receive it sooner in the near future.




Jose – KK4JZX


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Sackrider
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 9:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: QST

Hi this is Brian Sackrider
n8mnx and qst is finally up on bard it's still a month behind but that’s an improvement it use to be 2 months behind it is about the only magazine that is late on bard and it's still not the entire text of the print addission there still several articles that nls chooses to omit for some reason this is very wrong and very discriminatory to the blind but most of the blind community just can't or won't see it for what it is.  we chould have the 
same access to the same information as our sighted peers.   This is very 
unexeptable that we get our qst more than a month after the sight do it's just old news what people are talking about of the ham radio we can't talk about because we don't get it until a month or so.  If the reason that certain articles are omited by nls is really due to the coppy rite laws than we chould work to get them changed but I think that this is not not the case as I understand it nls does have the permission to reproduce theese meterials in a specialized format for the exclusive use of it's readers if that’s true then this does cover reading the entire text of the print addission.  How would sighted hams feel if their qst was a month or more behind and there was a note on it theese articles were omited by instruction of the us postal service? Come on and wake up folks and smell the coffee I guess that the blind community really enjoy being discriminated against and taken advantaged of I don't don't I try to advocate for change but theblind community does not really care they refuse to advocate for anything that effects the blind community at all I try to make a differense and advocate for the needs we have like access to the same information as the sighted and at a reasonable time and I also advocate for braille when ever possible I always let companies know that Ialways preferbraille over audio just like the sighted prefer print over audio qst in braille anyone I will keep up the fight even if iI have to fight allone. If I find something that I feel is unacceptable then I will speek up about it and it't high time that the blind community started doing the same. 73 n8mnx -----Original Message-----
From: Scott Gillen
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 10:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: QST

For any one interested the April QST is now up on the bard site.

73
Scott
N0HOX / ZL1CHM
Auckland New Zealand

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