I remember Bill Gerey (sic) of Smith-Kettlewell telling me about deaf hams
who made (or had made for them) transducers by gluing half a pingpong ball
over an appropriate sized speaker, making the cw easy to feel.

Ron Miller


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From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 11:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Deaf Ham

Back in the late sixties, I worked a ton of 15 meters; both phone and = CW.
I worked the novice band there and it was loaded due to great band =
conditions.  I got a card in the mail one day from a guy I worked in the =
novice band.  He was deaf and blind, he told me on the card, that he =
worked CW by screwing off the plastic ear pieces on old headphones, we =
called them cans, and lightly touched the vibrating plates so he worked = CW
by feel.  I never knew, or could tell, as I thought back to the CW = contact
I had with him so it was pretty neat and old technology now, of = course.

Phil.
K0NX


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