100 per cent agree on that one Alan!
Minimizing a disability or minimizing limitations is plain stupid and 
unfortunately a major selling point for the biggest blindness organization 
in the US...I'm sure it's obvious which one.
Yes, lets just hide from it, pretend it doesn't exist and maybe it'll go 
away, or maybe others will treat us like sighted people...serious BS.
Accepting ones disability, learning to work within the limitations and 
becoming totally comfortable in your own skin as a blind person is far more 
productive and allows one to lead a happy and successful life.
Pretending it's no more than a neusance only prolongs acceptance and 
obtaining your own healthy level of self security, self confidence and self 
asteem.
And to keep it relatively short, living with ones own limitations, and 
accepting the way one is and will always be is not the same thing as 
failure, or complaicents or giving up or not trying to push those 
limitations or boundaries...that is always healthy more or less.  A Neusance 
my foot lol.

73
Colin V A 6BKX
-----Original Message----- 
From: Alan R. Downing
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 5:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: scanners?

Hey Butch, ain't being blind great?  I have to laugh at those poor souls
that really believe that being blind is a mere nuisance.  What hog wash!
On a scale where blindness is a mere nuisance is on one end, and a total
disaster on the other, blindness would be a lot closer to the disaster end
than a mere nuisance.

N7MIT


Alan R. Downing
Phoenix, AZ

-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 1:57 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: scanners?

Has anyone had any luck using radio refference with scanner programming
software.  I have a pro 433 with butel software and although it wasn't at
all speech friendly, couldn't edit any fields, I could go to radio
reference from within the program and down load to the scanner.  I can no
longer do that, comes up with combo boxes as window-eyes calls them for
state and I can't get anything to work. I've tried n v d a as well with no
success.  I sware, we kep losing accessibility on this stuff.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.