Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!yale!bunker!hcap!hnews!291!6!Steve.Bauer
From: Steve.Bauer@f6.n291.z1.fidonet.org (Steve Bauer)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Ham Radio
Message-ID: <16799@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 17:59:14 GMT
Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP
Reply-To: Steve.Bauer@f6.n291.z1.fidonet.org
Distribution: misc
Organization: FidoNet node 1:291/6 - Wichita BBS, Wichita Kansas
Lines: 24
Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP

Index Number: 12866

[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Bonnie, Amateur Radio is a great hobby for the disabled as many are
not mobile and active.  I've been a ham since 1972 and am so busy
withwork and everything that I'm not on much at all.

Bill mentioned a repeater close to you.  In case you do not know what
it is, a repeater is simply a radio receiver that listens on a
specific frequency, and then, uses a transmitter on another frequency
to retransmit what the receiver heard at a very high power.  This way
one can use a small hand held radio and talk for hundreds of miles by
uing a repeater.  Some repeaters offer an autopatch, that allows one
to place telephone calls from the radio by using the equipment in a
repeater.  The ability to call 911 on one of these systems is very
very useful.  Repeaters are one of the most popular forms of
communication on Amateur Radio.

Steve/KC0HF

--
Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!291!6!Steve.Bauer
Internet: Steve.Bauer@f6.n291.z1.fidonet.org