I had one of those Conway devices and used it for years, Albert, WA7FXB
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: I did it! - Trying to Make My First 2M QSO on TS-2000


> 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
>>
>>
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