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> From: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 26 February, 2013 11:29:56 PM NST
> To: Michael Ryan <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re_DSTAR Accessability
> 
> Hi Jed and all, and apologize if I spelled your name wrong: 
> 
> I think what needs to happen here is we need a voice to get in the ear of either a major ham radio software manufacturer or hardware manufacturer. 
> To accomplish this, maybe a group needs to be created to which all blind and visually impaired hams could join to spearhead change. 
> I don't know how it is in the states but up here in Canada, there's no formal blind ham group to get in the ear of industry Canada, the governing body which regulates the Amateur Radio service.  
> Sure we have the CNIB which assists in us getting transcribed study materials but with technology the way it is now, the CNIB's Amateur Radio program is pretty much in the wilderness. Sure you can contact them for loaner equipment and so on but there's no governing sort of voice.  
> So to that end, on the dStar problem, maybe we could start with Ray Novac at Icomm. Maybe we should get some sort of email per titian and I would be more than happy to sign on for that. '
> I think it could start mainly with this group. Formalize some things and start. Most of us here probably have skype, echolink and so on, so lets go. 
> 
> 73: 
> 
> Michael DE VO1AX 
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