Howard Thanks very much.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard, W A 9 Y B W" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2012 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Signing off...again


> 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
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