Hi Bob,   
      
   On Mon 2012-Mar-05 09:13, BOB BREED (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
    RW> I'd bet so!  The Bahamas is pretty rare for the west coast   
    RW> guys who don't have big gun stations, where I work 'em all   
    RW> the time on 20m.   
      
   BB> Your a bit closer.  :)   
      
   Yep, that I am.  Thsi time of night though (going on six   
   your time) I'm hearing the west coast and all that   
   consistently and anything east is rare.  But propagation   
   follows the sun of course.   
      
      
      
    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.   
      
    RW> YEp, it was an interesting discussion.  Some blind guys use   
    RW> a brass tube which has other applications to feed the solder to the   
    RW> work, they feel for the joint with the tip of the   
    RW> iron, and feed the solder through this tube to the work   
    RW> which they've found with the other.  sort of same principle   
    RW> as walking down the street feeling for obstacles in front of you with   
    RW> your long cane.   
      
    RW> I do fair when I"ve got a jig rigged up with common   
    RW> connector types, example a pl259.  INsert the center of the   
    RW> 259 into an so239 on the bench stable, have the sleeve   
    RW> already on the cable but not yet attached, solder the   
    RW> center, then the braid.  I used to have before Katrina a   
    RW> bench jig with all sorts of common connector types I use   
    RW> that made it somewhat easier.   
      
      
   BB> My hat's off to ya. :)     
      
   IT works, I don't do near as well without my jig, and   
   components on a board aren't my thing, though some guys can   
   do it.  I can do alright with a wire wrap tool though.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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