very true and some do use a tape recorder.  Like I always say, whatever
works!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terri Pannett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: traffic handling slates etc.


>I practice on the slate occasionally, but I've never felt as comfortable
> with it as I do with the brailler.  I practice the slate while I'm
> watching
> TV so I won't fall asleep.  I can bang out 40 words a minute onn a
> brailler.
> I'm always surprised when I see a brailler for sale.  They, too, can be
> used
> when the power is out.  I've used them for net controlling, too.  I think
> a
> slate would be extremely slow and inconvenient, especially if you are
> running a net where you must take down the check-ins and ackknowledge them
> without a roll call.
>
> I used to listen and check into a swap net on 2 meters and I could hear
> the
> ncs banging away on a brailler.  I just don't see how a slate user could
> keep up with a swap net without cheating and using a tape recorder as
> backup.  (grin).
>
> Terri, Amateur Radio call sign KF6CA.  Army MARS call sign AAT9PX,
> California
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:09 PM
> Subject: traffic handling slates etc.
>
>
>> SInce the subject has been discussed recently I thought I"d
>> present another angle to consider.
>> dUring Katrina I would have been hard pressed to charge a
>> laptop, pda or other device's batteries.  THank GOd for a
>> slate and stylus.
>> When handling traffic using phone the sending station should
>> assume that the receiving station is using pen or pencil
>> writing in longhand.  HE or she should send at a speed which
>> accomodates this spelling and voicing possibly unfamiliar or
>> ambiguous groups as they come up.  A moderately skilled
>> slate user should be able to follow along if the sending
>> station is a skilled traffic handler.  Otherwise tell him or
>> her to slow down.
>>
>> Even if you're not a regular slate user, if you're a
>> braille user at all you should practice this skill
>> occasionally.  AFter all, those little notetaker batteries
>> have a finite lifespan without the umbilical to the outside
>> world.
>>
>> IN fact if I ever buy a notetaker I"ll be quite interested
>> in fabricating a recharger for its battery pack which can
>> draw power from 12 volts dc.  A friend of mine did something
>> like that for his laptop a few years ago.
>>
>> 73 de nf5b
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard WEbb,
>> Electric SPider Productions,
>> Eads Tennessee
>>
>>
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