Ok, thanks Tom, good to hear from you.  Hope you and Susan are 
doing well up there in the cool northwest part of CA.  Did you 
ever get on HF? 73, Jim WA6EKS

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Fowle <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 21:25:14 -0700
Subject: Re: Question about accessible antenna tuners

I never take the opinion of a manufacturer about accessibility of 
their
products unless they can explain what they claim in a manner that 
says they
know what they're talking about.

Actually I never directly ask a company if a blind person can run 
their
thingie, most of them havn't the faintest idea so will make up an 
answer.
Unless a tuner required you to make selections from an 
inaccessible display,
seems to me most of them you just hit a "tune" button and wait 
for it to
finish clicking and whirring.

If you end up with low vswr, you got it made.

I should think one would quickly learn the kinds of noise 
patterns your tuner
produces.

Not everything absolutely has to yack at you to be usable.

Tom Fowle WA6IVG

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:11:38AM -0700, Jim Gammon wrote:
 I have a question about the FMJ 998 auto tuner.  How user
 friendly is it for blind folks? I recently purchased, then
 returned an LDGAT600 Pro tuner to use with my ALS600 Amp because
 the LDG tuner not accessible far as I could tell though I only
 had it online a few minutes.  Also, I found through an email
 which is the only way you can talk to LDG, that the LDG
 engineers said that blind people would not be able  use that
 tuner.  So that limits my operating space to where my SWR is 
best
 tolerated by the amp which is the best way but I am interested 
in
 other people's solutions to this issue.  Looking for a good
 auto-tuner that can handle 600 watts.  73, Jim WA6EKS