[NFB-Hams] Question

Gary Lee kb9zuv at arrl.net
Sun Jul 11 01:02:54 UTC 2021


Other than the specific blindness aspects, there is such a book.

It is called the ARRL ham radio license manual.

It is available through NLS.
An earlier incarnation is also available via bookshare.

I have taught license classes for the past 15 years.  And, little has changed.
Some additions relating to digital transmission modes, and some rules and regs changes. But, basic physics and electronics and the original purpose for amateur radio have not changed since the introduction of solid state electronics.

I’ll be happy to try and help you.
Perhaps some more detail on precisely what you are having trouble with getting  started will help us.

I have helped license folks from 13 to 75. so help us help you.


> On Jul 10, 2021, at 7:35 PM, 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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