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W8CIL

Well, fine business, Jeff, I think ham radio is a good hobby for blind people. One of my original Elmers, back when I got my first novice license back in 1970, was blind. His name was Roy, his call sign was W8CIL, and he's been a silent T for a long time, I remember him, in fact, I put a novice origin story in my autobiography, also known as My Cure Zip, but blurb, but I kind of went nuts. I keep adding things to it. But they've rather subtracted things, too. But, Jeff, I'm just kind of reading. I have to remember things by going and looking at it. Oh, yeah, that's The call site was WHCIL. The point of bringing that up is that I serendipitously inherited, in semantic quotes, I inherited his Tentec Century 21, which I remember I admired so much, it was like a brand new radio back in the 70s, a model 570 is the model number. Out of the blue, my brother told me that his family had given one to give me his century 21. It's like an old novice radio, but 25 watt transmitter, and I don't have that one anymore. I found a replacement in Fest, or no, a friend told it to me for a while, a few years ago, But the one he gave me had when all the controls were labeled in braille. For instance, the band switch was labeled B& for band. The one that I have now, I have another blind ham gave me a label maker and I've done this move and stuff a couple of years ago and I need to get it out because I want to remake the labels on my replacement Sentry 21 that Roy had on my original one which he had willed to me. So no blood relation but it kind of like inherited his 10 text Sentry 21 but he was like I really liked him when I was a kid when I was like you know 13 years old but because it was like it was like a open the world also to see how well he could operate being blind and the age that existed then that weren't anything like what we have now but anyway I'm all for blind hammer you up bears and and I know a couple, more than a couple. So welcome again to the PSRG as I'm sure that you feel welcome here. Check into any one of our nets at Pacific time. As you probably already know they're nine in the morning and then and nine at night and those nets have been going for about 40 some years since the 1970s and then there's a new net that's been happening for about six years that is a nice round out the set and