Hi Howard,

I run a Sunday 2 meter club net here in the Chicago area.  I am a leftie -
I read Braille with my righbt hand.  The mike stays in the left while I
read the preamble.  I keep the Perkins on my lap.  We use a roll call - I
have that on index cards with a card break between letters.  That makes
maintaining the roll call easy to update.  As I call people, I put down the
mike as I am listening, freeing my extra hand for the brailler.  I've
worked this way for a number of years.  At one time the net call in level
was near 100 stations.  That has dropped to half over the years, but always
went pretty well.  Do it a time or two and you will work out your own
shortcuts.

Good luck and enjoy.

Pat, K9JAUAt 09:02 AM 7/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>         I have been asked to run a net on our local repeater.
>Since I only have two hands, I am trying to figure out how to read
>the  preamble script, my check in list, and hold a hand mike at the same
>time.  Does anybody use braille here and run a  VHF net?  If so how?
>Thanks!