Welcome aboard, Eric.

You'll find this to be a great list with lots of helpful members.

So, as you encounter questions or issues, please don't hesitate to ask.

Also, you might want to check out two week-end nets we have.

One is the 20-meter cross-country Blind Ops net, which meets on or near 
14.258 MHZ upper sideband Sunday afternoons at 2000Z.

The other net, which may or may not be workable for you is a 40-meter east 
coast mid west blind ops round table.   That net meets at 200Z on or near 
7.191 MHZ lower sideband on Saturday afternoons.  I am not sure what your 
QTH is, but with a 7 call, I suspect it may be out west somewhere.

Again, welcome to the group!!

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ, Big Rapids, MI


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "eric oyen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2013 7:47 PM
Subject: hello everyone. new member here


> Greetings fellow blind hams,
>
> I am eric and also a blind ham. I decided (once I got other things =
> squared away here) to join the list.
>
> My station:
> HF radio: Yeasu FT-757GX1 with MFJ-949e Antenna tuner, Palomar =
> Tuner-Tuner noise bridge, and Carolina Windom 80-10 meter antenna
> VHF/UHF: Kenwood TMD-710 Dual Band Mobile with comet CX-902 Base Antenna
> Several Handheld radios.
>
> My HF radio would normally be inaccessible to the blind except that I =
> use an FIF-232C computer interface and rigctl (rig control) for Ubuntu =
> Linux. This allows me to set my radio to any frequency with little fuss. =
> This control program also works with many other radios supported under =
> the HamLib package for linux.Since this is a command line program, it =
> will work well with ORCA (on the unity desktop) or with BRLtty for =
> strictly command line linux. I am using this program via a terminal =
> shell on the desktop and it works well. I can even invoke it via an SSH =
> (secure shell) session and remotely control the radio from my desk. now =
> about the only thing I need to figure out is how to port the audio via a =
> network connection and listen to it on my mac in another part of the =
> house. Thats a project for another day.
>
> eric
> n7zzt
>