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Handiham Radio Camp is on the air! We hope you can join us on the air for the daily Handiham net via EchoLink, node 89680. 11:00 AM CDT. 145.450 repeater (no tone) in the Twin Cities. You can also listen in to hear the talkaround at camp. Look for station W0EQO, node 261171, if you wish to connect directly to the Radio Camp EchoLink node. Campers can hear you call on 146.445 MHz. W0EQO is also on HF. We hope to hear you on the air! 73, Patrick Tice
TS-480 Remote Base We have one really exciting project going on right now: The Handiham Remote Base. Brad Wyatt, K6WR, contacted me about setting up a remote base and gave me the idea. Update! Lyle, K0LR, and Pat, WA0TDA, tested the remote base on the air on Monday, August 18. The test went well, and we look forward to trying some initial setup on Tuesday, August 19. Radio campers arrive the next day, Wednesday, August 20, for a week-long Radio Camp session at Courage North, deep in the pines of Northern Minnesota's lake country. We hope to work YOU on the air! look for callsigns W0ZSW and W0EQO.
Thunder Free Screenreader Thunder is award-winning free screenreader talking software for blind and visually impaired people. Thunder is a reading aid and restores the ability to write, keep up to date with information, learning and work, while remaining within the mainstream of Society. It works on XP or Vista machines, preferably newer ones with enough memory resources. This was recommended to us by KB3LLA. Listen to the Thunder screenreader in action: Learn more and download the Thunder screenreader:
PIEXX aftermarket voice chips There are plenty of older transceivers out there on the used market, but only a select few of them make really good rigs for a blind operator. The key is the availability of a voice synthesized frequency readout. While many of these radios, like the Kenwood TS-440 and the TS-450, may be found for a reasonable price, they may lack the speech chip that was sold as an accessory when the radios were in production. Kenwood no longer makes either model, nor does it make the speech chips. So what to do?
NVDA Update NVDA, the free, open-source screenreader for Windows, has just released another update. There is more support for portable devices, an essential feature for many users. The new release is also said to be more configurable. If you are already using the last stable release of NVDA, the new beta is recommended over your current version. NVDA 0.6p2 is what you should install, and you can download it in several versions here: http://www.nvda-project.org/blog We would appreciate knowing how it works, so if there are any Handiham users out there, send us a report.
Handiham World for 13 August 2008
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Lookup ServicesPollThe HF antenna I use most is a:
Beam
0%
Dipole
20%
Vertical
50%
Quad
0%
Mobile
0%
Other wire antenna
30%
I don't get on the HF bands
0%
Total votes: 10
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