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If this was for sale, would one be able to purchase the electronic file
to have it brailled locally or read it on there favorite braille
device?


Doug

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:18:03PM -0500, McCloskey, Anthony wrote:
> Hi All:
> Well I would like to have a copy of the ARRL handbook, but I think it would
> be better on cd with a text file for each chapter.  Also, If anything like
> this were done, good schematic descriptions would be essentual or the book
> would not be very useful.  When I worked for Recorded Periodicals a long
> time ago, a friend of mine who was an electrical engineer read the entire
> 1975 arrl handbook on tape and he described all the schematics and
> construction techniques.  He did a sooper job. The thing was on 12 cassettes
> at 15/16 speed and four tracks.  Possibly we could talk some one on the ARRL
> staff into writing some of the schematic descriptions.   I think the 2002
> handbook is around 1000 pages or more, so you know the braille edition with
> schematic descriptions would be about 3 times that size or more.
> Have a good weekend.
>
> Tony McCloskey, WA3CAO
>

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