Overwhelm the Icom booth at Dayton and Something may happen.
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From: "Michael Ryan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:03 PM
Subject: Fwd: Re_DSTAR Accessability


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>> From: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: 26 February, 2013 11:29:56 PM NST
>> To: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re_DSTAR Accessability
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>> Hi Jed and all, and apologize if I spelled your name wrong:=20
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>> I think what needs to happen here is we need a voice to get in the ear of 
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> ither a major ham radio software manufacturer or hardware manufacturer.=20
>> To accomplish this, maybe a group needs to be created to which all blind 
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> nd visually impaired hams could join to spearhead change.=20
>> I don't know how it is in the states but up here in Canada, there's no 
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> mal blind ham group to get in the ear of industry Canada, the governing 
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> which regulates the Amateur Radio service. =20
>> Sure we have the CNIB which assists in us getting transcribed study 
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> als but with technology the way it is now, the CNIB's Amateur Radio 
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> s pretty much in the wilderness. Sure you can contact them for loaner 
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> ent and so on but there's no governing sort of voice. =20
>> So to that end, on the dStar problem, maybe we could start with Ray Novac 
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> t Icomm. Maybe we should get some sort of email per titian and I would be 
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> re than happy to sign on for that. '
>> I think it could start mainly with this group. Formalize some things and 
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> tart. Most of us here probably have skype, echolink and so on, so lets 
> go.=20=
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>> 73:=20
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>> Michael DE VO1AX=20
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