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Hi.
Other than sitting at work looking through the files on agency equipment
and/or software, I don't have any such way to read such files. I'm in
agreement with Butch on this one.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 11:13 PM 1/15/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Butch,
>
>As you know, back translation of Braille is not always foolproof and it is
>highly unlikely that the sighted would bother trying this, especially since
>such files would still be missing such features as diagrams.
>
>On the other hand, we can read these BRF files using a lot of methods:
>Braille displays, braille note taking devices, portable reading devices like
>Book Port and even software such as K1000 and OpenBook!
>
>DAISY would also be another good format.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:55 PM
>Subject: Re: Revisiting accessible amateur radio study materials.
>
>
> > I'll have to give this some thought, but I'm not in favor of brf formats.
> > I don't have a braille device nor do I have such software as far as I
> > know. If a sighted person really wanted to copy this stuff, couldn't they
> > get the back conversion software as easy as I can?
> > Aren't the question pools available in plain text? They use to be when I
> > got my extra.
> > 73s
> > Butch Bussen
> > wa0vjr
Louis Kim Kline
A.R.S. K2LKK
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