[NFB-Hams] Question

[bob.kd0br at gmail.com]

Aaron, You may have something here. We know that J.D. at the Louisiana Center has done trainings there and also with Curtis Willoughby, KA0VBA, last summer on ZOOM but something could be worked out. I would be interested in an thoughts you or anyone else may in putting something together. I am willing to add my two cents worth in any training sessions if needed.

 

73,

Bob KD0BR

 

From: NFB-Hams <nfb-hams-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Aaron Cannon via NFB-Hams
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2021 6:52 PM
To: National Federation of the Blind Amateur Radio Division List <nfb-hams at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Aaron Cannon <cannona at fireantproductions.com>
Subject: Re: [NFB-Hams] Question

 

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 <mailto: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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