Hi Butch,
I went through the same questions about whether the Iphone was worth it, but
I got an unlimited data plan and I love it!
Best wishes, Kelvin Marsh - M0AID
Working to improve accessibility for radio amateurs with disabilities
www.active-elements.org
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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
Sent: 25 May 2013 09:27
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Accessible Radio
I haven't decided yet on an iPhone or an iPod touch. I may go for the
iPhone just to have gps which I think would be fun. Suggestions any
one? I bought the n b p textt file but haven't started reading it yet.
I may have to fire up the braille printer and print off some of that.
Talking about a steap learning curve, there is my 990. I think a friend
said there were 105 buttons and knobs on that thing. Still learning..
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.
On
Sat, 25 May 2013, Jim Gammon wrote:
> Hey Butch, with that new I phone app that lets you take pictures and send
> them to a computer or crowd source them, you can go grocery shopping~!
may
> just take a couple of hours to figure out what you took a picture of.
> Actually it's pretty neat, but I don't have an I Phone and even though
that
> app is impressive, you are right, it won't fill the bill like a sighted Y
L
> or friend. 73, Jim WA6EKS
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Butch Bussen
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 12:52 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Accessible Radio
>
> I'm not just talking about reading books, how about reading mail, paying
> bills, reading grocery flyers and I haven't figured out a way to go
> grocery shopping without sighted help. I can tell you from experience,
> life is much easier and fun if you have a sighted wife.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.
>
>
> On Fri, 24 May
> 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>
>> Reading through your ears is an adjustment, but it can be done. Their is
>> no
>> way that you can read with your ears nearly as fast as many people do
with
>> their eyes. With all of the options from bookshare to Reading Alli, to
>> BARD, to News Line, their is more available material than anybody can
read
>> in a lifetime, if that's all they do. It seems today that very few
people
>> get a book from a library or buy it, bring it home and scan it by hand.
>> That was the most magical thing you could do with a computer, not so long
>> ago. I remember the day I got my first book as a Father's day pressent.
>> I
>> could scan and read and keep it!!! It is still magic to turn invisible
>> print in to understandable speech.
>> True confession, how many of you like me hord books on your hard drives?
>> I
>> think its like people who lived through the depression hording stuff.
>> They
>> went with out and never want to do so again.
>> On another topic, I am amazed at how many of us have shaken hands with
>> high
>> DC voltage and live to tell the tale.
>> Mine was the plate caps on the 807's in the globe chief. Ten feet away
>> from
>> the radio table, felt like a sledge hammer.
>>
>>
>
>
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