Don't know if this made it through.
Ed K7UC
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Making Braille Dials
>I had the Drake twins for many years long ago but no Braille skirts. If I
>remember right there is 25 revolutions of the big knobs, frequency and I
>just used the Xtal calibrator as markers which must have worked pretty well
>so that may help if no marked skirts. On my job I made Braille scales to go
>under the pots, knobs and such as that but I don't remember how for sure.
>I think I used a compass but can't remember a hundred years back. I used
>old flexible talking book records for the material which don't wear off the
>dots. Something to think about. 73
> Ed K7UC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 6:36 PM
> Subject: Making Braille Dials
>
>
>>I remember reading in Braille Technical Press about how to make
>> Braille dials using a stylus tied to a string, the other end of which
>> was anchored to the center of a piece of plastic such as a coffee can
>> lid.
>>
>> My attempts at creating them were pretty disastrous, even after Fred
>> Gassoni reminded me of the technique during a visit to Jackson about
>> 20 years ago.
>>
>> I forget who made those dials for the Drakes. I saw one T4X that had
>> been fitted with them, and it was amazing to be able to read the
>> analogue dials as good as any other ham.
>>
>> I also once saw a Heath HW16 that a guy had modified with a Braille
>> dial for his wife. They were trying to sell it after she had upgraded
>> to General, and did their best to persuade me to buy it. I did not,
>> because I had already spent my radio budget. I don't know whatever
>> became of that rig, and I have always wished I had gone ahead and
>> bought it. Now, of course, I need an HW16, or any other additional rig
>> for that matter, like I need another hole in my head!
>>
>>
>> Mike Duke, K5XU
>> American Council of Blind Radio Amateurs
>>
>
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