Courage Center Handiham System

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Courage Center's Handiham System provides several mailing lists that contain news about ham radio and technology for people with disabilities and others who may be interested.

Handiham World: This is our weekly e-letter, which is also available as an audio podcast. It is published Wednesdays on http://handiham.org and is also available in streaming audio on that website. This newsletter is available via email from two sources:

Choice 1: Freelists.org hosts our mailing list. Go to
http://www.freelists.org/list/handiham-world

Be a Ham Radio Operator!

The AA9PW practice exam site now has the new Extra Class 2008 examination ready. Users who plan to upgrade to Extra after June 30, 2008 can now use this resource to take practice Extra Class exams that are derived from the new question pool. The current question pool expires after June 30, so there is less than a month to upgrade under the current pool.

 
Courage Center's Handiham World Weekly E-Letter for the week of 21 May 2008

This is a weekly news & information update from Courage Center's Handiham System. Please do not reply to this message. Use the contact information below, or simply email handiham@courage.org. For subscribe/unsubscribe information, please see the bottom of the page.

Listen in MP3 or RealAudio, later in the day, after podcast audio is posted.

Streaming MP3:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.m3u

Download the e-letter via accessible MP3:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.mp3

The Handiham podcast is at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/handiham

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Contact us at:

Courage Center - Handiham System
3915 Golden Valley Road
Golden Valley, MN 55422

Toll-Free: 1-866-426-3442
Email: hamradio@courage.org

Welcome to Handiham World!

Photo: Chris, KG0BP, and Carl, N8NSD, take a few minutes to visit at the Handiham booth during HAMVENTION®.

Last week we were at HAMVENTION®, and with so much time out of the office and on the road, it takes a little time to catch up with all of the usual office duties. I have some photos with captions for you later on. I don't want this particular edition to be all about the hamfest, so in upcoming weeks I'll be sharing some thoughts with you on various aspects of the world's largest amateur radio get-together. 

Often times it is difficult to get technical support when you need it, right? And some of us like to try to figure things out ourselves before calling for help anyway. Screenreading software programs are wonderful, but using them can be daunting, especially for users who have not grown up learning this technology through their school years.