I attended the California School for the Blind in the fifties and sixties
and that is where I first came into contact with ham radio.  Before
attending the school for tjhe blind I had an old airline standard broadcast
and short wave receiver.  I used to listen to 20 and 75 meters am and first
heard that duck quacking called ssb.  When I earned the radio merit badge
at the school the councelor was a ham and he encouraged us to study a
little more and get the liscense.  That was 1958 and I was wn6nyi and it
has been great fun ever since.
Chuck ki6hk