[BlindTlk] Amateur Radio Information, please.

[Ericka]

My Husband, WI9HF and I, Katie nine VBX are up at Handiham‘s camp right now. It’s a one week camp Thursday to Thursday in Minnesota where it’s interacting and getting tips from each other plus learning and practicing skills. Apparently some years they have not had testing but this year they offered testing and I got my general. Chad and I are very grateful we came. Today is our last day here but it’s more like coming and visiting Family. There is a scholarship to make attendance at  financially possible. There are people here from all over the United States and wonderful Christophe from Munich Germany. I just want to also let people know that it’s not just for blind people. They’re always looking for excited Ham Radio‘s to help at camp with some things and they welcome people with all disabilities like Siri ABLE palsy, autism wheelchair, bound, and everything else. The more the merrier! Sorry for the shameless plug for Handiham camp but now that I’ve been here I can speak to. It’s wonderful time.


Ericka Nelson
KD9VBX

> On Aug 9, 2025, at 8:07 PM, Judy Jones via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Don!  Good to hear from you, thank you so much.
> 
> I will follow up on your suggestion, and also give your number to Chris as
> well.
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> Thanks very much.
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> 
> Judy
> 
> "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlindTlk <blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Don Mitchell via
> BlindTlk
> Sent: Saturday, August 9, 2025 5:39 PM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List' <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Don Mitchell <donmi1949 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Amateur Radio Information, please.
> 
> Judy,
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> You're probably familiar with Handihams. They are a non-profit group out of
> Minnesota. They can be reached at:
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> http://handihams.org.
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> The director is a blind woman named Lucinda Moody.
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> For annual dues, Possibly $15.00 per year, you can get access to all of the
> training information on their website. They offer training classes
> regularly.
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> 
> Modern radios, with transistor finals, need little tuning, so that is not
> the problem it used to be with vacuum tube finals. They have information on
> accessible equipment, or how to do work arounds to make radios workable by
> the blind.
> 
> Call me any time if you want to talk about it.
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> 
> Don Mitchell N7ETR
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> Donmi1949 at gmail.com <mailto:Donmi1949 at gmail.com>
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> 360.281.0187
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