Dear Lou,

When I used to send a lot of traffic, I had a headset with a boom mike and a
foot switch.  I bought two headsets, one for hf and another for vhf.  Some
friends helped me get them put together.  That kept my hands free for
reading and writing.  In those days, I banged everything down on a Perkins
brailler.

I have a different station nowadays and I don't have the headsets or foot
switches because my rigs are very different.  I haven't sent much traffic,
but I take it down using my BrailleNote or my PC which has an old PB40
braille display attached to it.

I personally prefer using braille.  I knew a man who used a tape recorder to
take down the messages and he later transcribed them into braille using a
slate and stylus.  He read messages from the braille he'd written on paper.

I know some people who have used tape both to send and receive traffic, but
I think it's more difficult.  I don't know how they are able to listen to
the tape and speak what they've heard into the mike without getting
tongue-twisted.

I still have my brailler and a slate or two kicking around in case the
electricity goes out so I could still handle traffic.

Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.  Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
California
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Kim Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 7:48 PM
Subject: Sending Traffic on NTS


> Hi to all.
>
> I had an interesting experience the other night.  A friend called me and
> asked me to put a message into the NTS for him.  I took down the message
> on
> my trusty Type 'n Speak (yep, I'm still using the old dinosaur).  When I
> went to send the message, though, there were a couple of places where the
> spelling was not easy and I needed to read through it character by
> character.  Suddenly, I found the need to have one hand for the RIGHT
> ARROW
> key, one hand for the LEFT SHIFT key, and one hand to key the
> microphone.  Awkward, to say the least!
>
> Since I don't have a Perkins braille writer, I have had to resort to
> putting things on one computer device or another.  I'm curious about
> whether anyone else has faced this problem when sending traffic, and if
> so,
> what you did about it.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
> P.S.  My braille is probably even less legible than my handwriting!
>
>
>
> Louis Kim Kline
> A.R.S. K2LKK
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