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    RW>    
    BB> I like the plan but don't think it will ever fly.  First of all it   
    BB> has to be voted in and how many congress critters do you think are   
    BB> going to vote yea when their own daughter or son may get sucked up   
    BB> in this draft.  So I see a modification to allow these kids to drop   
    BB> out of the plan, or if they can't get that in - kill the plan.  (I   
    BB> suspect the last anyway because of the gal thing.)   
      
    RW> Probably so, but it's still imho the best way to do it.  I   
    RW> think it was Wrangell out of NEw YOrk state that was one of   
    RW> the few congressors I ever heard advocate for such a thing.   
      
   Does he have draft age kids?  :)   
      
    BB> Really?  He was sure pouring in here, would have swore he was in CA.   
    BB> :) (C6AKQ was the call.)   
      
    RW> YEp, that'd be the Bahamas.  WAs that on 20 meters?  IF so   
    RW> it's been rather long last few days.  That would definitely   
    RW> be a bahamas call sign though.   
      
    BB> Yup, some contest thing going on last Saturday.   
      
    RW> OH yeah, the arrl cw dx contest.  YEp, iirc you would have   
    RW> probably heard BAhamas real well last weekend on cw from out your way.   
    RW> I think I was working boats off Hawaii last   
    RW> weekend pretty easily with my hundred watts and a dipole   
    RW> looking east/west.   
      
   He was racking up the contacts. :)   
      
    RW> YEah it's a different world these days.  When I heard an   
    RW> extra class the other day asking how to figure the length of a dipole,   
    RW> and another saying he didn't know how to tune up   
    RW> his new tube type linear amplifier I was rolling on the   
    RW> floor making strange noises.   
      
    BB>  Oh, we've always had those guys around.  :)   Ops, but no technical   
    BB> knowlege at all. :)   
      
    RW> YEah I know, and i kidna resemble that remark, I'm the   
    RW> world's biggest klutz with a soldering iron, but I can do   
    RW> alright with the theory, and guiding the guy with the iron   
    RW> at least .   
      
    BB>  By any standards, you have a valid excuse for not swinging a   
    BB> soldering iron around. :)   
      
    RW> YEah but I know some blind guys that are actually pretty   
    RW> good.  there are alternative techniques.  some guys rig up a foot   
    RW> switch to control a regular iron instead of the   
    RW> trigger.  In fact, a guy who wrote an article telling blind   
    RW> folks adaptations for soldering talked to an eye surgeon who said he   
    RW> could understand why even sighted techs might want   
    RW> to do such  a thing.  HIs logic was that by squeezing the   
    RW> trigger you mess with that whole mechanism that is your   
    RW> arm/wrist/shoulder thing.  Where if you support the iron   
    RW> with you arm and wrist stable and just move the hand, making the tip an   
    RW> extension of your hand then you've got a stable   
    RW> base to work from.  hE was talking about the whole   
    RW> mechanical linkage between hand wrist arm and shoulder.   
    RW> Kidn of interesting.   
      
      
   Learn something everyday. :)   
      
      
      
      
       
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