Hi Gerry,

I agree with you 100 percent.

While this is basically a Ham Radio list, because of the nature of 
technology today, it is often frustrating dealing with it as a blind person.

Blind Hams are great at figureing out how to get something to work, or at 
least find a work-around.

Remember, when Ham Radio started, the only way you could get on the air was 
to figure out how to build your gear, from scratch, there were no kits.

While most of Ham Radio today is instant gratification, buy it, take it out 
of the box, plug it in, get on the air.

There are still Hams who are tinkerers and experimenters and like to figure 
out all sorts of ways to do something.

Ham Radio today covers much more technology than 50 years ago.  Many 
seemingly unrelated items can be a part of ham radio today.

I use my Victor Stream to record QSO's sometimes, therefore, now I can ask 
questions about it since it is now part of my station, get my drift?

Let's all have a broader and more open mind and do what Hams do best, help 
one another no matter what is asked of us, it doesn't always have to be 
radio related.

    Much of my enjoyment on this list is to answer someone's question and 
know I helped them.

73

Howard #3

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Learry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Signing off...again


>I hope this message finds you with enough patients to read it.  I was a
> member of another blind hams list.  The guide lines were strict, and the
> list had little traffic.  One day one of the members asked people if they
> could help him with outlook express because he was having trouble getting
> and filtering that particular list.  He was moderated heavily and removed
> from the list.  That left me spinning because he had good reason to ask, 
> and
> also he asked for replies off list.  On this list we do stray from the
> technical side of ham radio, but even in ham radio while experimenting we
> talk of all kinds of things that help a lot to give some kind of human
> quality to the computer synthesizer.  I'll not forget the day I met Howard
> from this list and I finally got to put a voice to the person coming out 
> of
> the computer speaker.  Now every time I hear a post from Howard, I 
> remember
> the day I met him in Dayton. I really hope that you can find enough humor 
> in
> life to stick with us.  Gerry
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert C" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 7:16 PM
> Subject: Signing off...again
>
>
>> Well, I am once again leaving the list for the vast majority of the
>> posts are off topic. If people are comfortable with this, so be it. But
>> its a damn shame for there are some of you who have a lot to offer when
>> it comes to ham radio (the name of the list is BLIND HAMS but maybe its
>> time to go with the flow and change it to something else). So rather
>> than press the delete key with no end in sight, I shall just bail out.
>> As a ham radio op, its pointless to be on this list.
>>
>> Quote of the nanosecond . . .
>> Oxymoron: Entertaining sermon
>> Robert & Dreamer Doll  ke7nwn
>> E-mail-
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