[NFB-Hams] Question

[Aaron Cannon]

I'm not sure if this would meet the demand for what you are looking for,
but I'd be happy to lead a licensing class, though I'd rather not do it
alone. But if I can find a partner, and there is enough demand for it, I'm
happy to help out. I taught a class to a bunch of homeschoolers a few
months ago, so it wouldn't be my first time.

Aaron
N9LID

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 18:37 Travis Siegel via NFB-Hams <
nfb-hams at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> What would be most uplifting is to see more blind hams.
>
> This could be made easier by someone (I don't care who) creating a book,
> website, blog post, email, podcast, or anything else that actually
> contains information folks who are unfamiliar with the hobby need to
> know to not only get online, but to get licensed, and gain the knowledge
> they need to know where/who/when to ask for help for things they don't
> understand/need additional assistance to complete/understand.  I'm (now)
> on two ham lists for the blind, and I have not seen a comprehensive plan
> for new hams *ever*. Even when I made an attempt to get licensed back
> around the 2K timeframe, all there was, was handihams, who sent me a
> book called Now Your Talking, then left me to figure out the rest on my
> own. Needless to say, I did not manage to get licensed back then, and to
> this day, although I've been interested in ham radio since the late
> 1980s, I am still unlicensed, largely due to the fact that there just
> isn't a single source of info a blind user can access for everything one
> needs to accomplish the whole licensing process.
>
> Generally, I'm a self starter, and I have no problem learning things.
> I'm self taught for nearly all of the 2 dozen plus programming languages
> I know, and I can generally pick up new operating systems, (I'm familiar
> with MacOS, Linux, Windows, Dos, Android, FreeBSD, and various versions
> of said operating systems, all learned on my own with no trouble.  But,
> for what it's worth, I just *can't* wrap my mind around the whole
> licensing test material, and I haven't a clue why that is.  Maybe I've
> just not found a format that works for me yet, or perhaps I've not found
> someone who can explain it all in a way I can grasp, but regardless,
> despite more than 20 years of trying, I've just plain not managed to
> accomplish the whole amateur license task thing, and that's a major
> disappointment for me.
>
> Having something that could walk someone through the process, with all
> the reference materials one might need to accomplish the task would be
> beneficial to all kinds of folks, not just me I'm sure.
>
>
>
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