You may be coming at the hottest time of the summer but it has been very 
dry, with humidity from 5 to 10 percent.

Phil.
K0NX


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aimee Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:19 PM
Subject: Re: The Sin of Omission: A Re buttal of Goodwill's Policy Statement 
on Subminimum Wage Payments to Workers with Disabilities


> Phil, just remember Big Brother AKA Uncle Sam, or whatever the hell you 
> want
> to call it is watching you.  Hehehehe!  Don't worry, your secret is safe
> with me until I get to work tomorrow.  Just kidding!  Actually, I'll be 
> out
> of there in a little over 2 weeks.  Can't wait!
>
> 73
> Aimee
> KK4JHF
> "Be well, do good work and keep in touch." (Garrison Keillor)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The Sin of Omission: A Re buttal of Goodwill's Policy 
> Statement
> on Subminimum Wage Payments to Workers with Disabilities
>
> Michael,
>
> I sure understand your situation based upon my own personal experiences of
> hamming in these last 47 years.  I started out with a 15 dollar 
> transmitter
> and 40 dollar receiver and both had to be repaired before I could even put
> them on the air.  I was 14 then.  After passing my general 6 months later,
> my mom purchased me a bran new Drake TR4 for a Christmas present and it 
> cost
> 495 dollars; the first new radio I own after many years had passed.  When 
> I
> was working full time, with my income tax return, I hope the IRS isn't
> reading my mail, I purchased a bran new, and very popular, FT101B and was 
> in
> hog heaven since I had to sell my Drake TR4 when I got married for money 
> to
> pay bills with.  From then on, I ran nothing but used gear, including a 1
> watt HW7 CW triple band radio, which I used for 18 months.  I paid 40
> dollars for it and worked over 600 stations with my 1 watter rig.  I had
> super fun like I never thought possible running QRP like that.  About 4
> years ago, I was able to buy a whole new stations through money that came 
> to
> my wife and I that we didn't know about.  She told me, "Why don't you buy 
> a
> whole new station with the money?"  I had nothing but a 30 year old radio 
> at
> the time.  The ham radio creed used to be, buy the least expensive radio 
> and
> just get on the air no matter what.  The hobby has become something 
> totally
> different and hams to help has changed to a big zero factor here in Denver
> compared to what it was back in Omaha but that was 40 years ago so it has
> probably diminished, too.  Still, there is used gear, or even gear that is
> borrowed from another ham, if the word is put out.  I went for several 
> years
> off air when I first got married but a friend I made in Denver loaned me 
> his
> HW100 and I had a blast playing with it.  He rarely used it. 
> Unfortunately,
> there aren't many of those hams around these days so I sure know your
> feelings.  It sometimes helps to be on 2 meters because you can meet more
> guys who might, that is a big, if, might help in some way.  There are
> organizations that help hams get their own station, too.  Is Handy Hams
> still doing that or not?
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Thurman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: The Sin of Omission: A Re buttal of Goodwill's Policy 
> Statement
> on Subminimum Wage Payments to Workers with Disabilities
>
>
>> how about the ability to not get fed over  by multi millionaires, and
>> be = able to actually afford to live  let alone buy ham radio stuff?
>> if you = can't afford to put food on the table or liv independently,
>> it would be = rather hard to have radios wouldn't it?  To be honest I
>> am surprised at = how many seemingly well to do blind hams there are
>> on this list. = constantly talking about getting new radios, towers
>> ext, and i am going = to assume you are one of those who have and
>> always have had plenty of = money. I know what it is like to not have
>> food on the table to pay rent = and wonder if you will be abe to have
>> a place to live by the time you = get money to pay the rent.  There
>> are a lot of disabled people with = nothing who depend on  sometimes
>> unsafe unsanitary disgusting government = housing. You can't put up
>> antennas in government housing.  so What does = this have to do with ham
> radio? a great deal.
>> If you can't have antennas and can't live somewhere decent, and have
>> to = struggle to just exist, ham radio isn't exactly  easy, as it is
>> not a = cheap hobby. I am currently off the air because I  have to
>> wait to get = money to fix up my antennas in fact, and I am lucky
>> enough to live in a = home with my girlfriend
>