It is amazing what works and what you try.  My swan 260 I ran mobile I 
could tune by listening to the wine of the inverter.  My elmac 67 I 
could tune on 160 by tuning in noise on a cheapy transister radio.  for 
frequency, I had a 100 ke crystal calibrator and you counted turns of 
the knob.  I once lost track and called cq for about a half hour on 
phone in the cw band.  I guess no one heard me as I never got a pink 
slip.  One of the neatest things I ever got was a tuning aid built by a 
man I think named Conway.  he built them fgor blind people and it was 
the best I've ever seen.  I don't know how many he built, but he must 
have been a neat guy as he never charged for these that I know of.  You 
hooked it across your meter and tuned for a plat dip or whatever.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Fri, 
13 Jun 2014, Richard B McDonald wrote:

> Hi Bill!
>
> OMG, this is *so* cool!
>
> I cannot begin to imagine how much harder it must have been in 1967 to do
> this.  First, the accessibility of rigs then must have been zero.  Then,
> where did one turn for help from a blind person's perspective?  I can tell
> you that without this user group I would be totally floundering.  Really, I
> wonder what it was like?
>
> 73,
> Richard KK6MRH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 7:37 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: I did it! - Trying to Make My First 2M QSO on TS-2000
>
> Richard,
>
> See how much fun it can be.  You should have heard me trying to wire my
> micrope up for vox back in 1967.  They called me green as apples and
> probably a few other things off the air.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>