The place I studied to obtain my license offers gift subscriptions for their courses, and I've been offering
codes for visually impaired hams that wish to become licensed, or who were licensed in the past, and just need
to retake the technician exam to reclaim their band privileges.
If you'd like to contribute to this effort, please contact me (address is elsewhere on this page), and I'll
provide you with an email where donations can be sent. (I'm not posting it online, I get enough spam as it
is.
First of course, is getting certified to be a ham, so in that vane, below is the list of question pools for
study material for getting licensed.
Question pool for the Technician question pool good until 2026
Question pool for the general question pool good until June 30 of this year.
and here's the question pool for the Extra class question pool good until 2024.
So, with that out of the way, Here's a list of accessible radios I was able to put
together by searching various vendors web sites, and discussions on the blind hams list, as well as many many
searches on our good friend google. The only radios on this list I've personally used are some of the Baofeng
brand offerings, and the Quansheng Uv-K5. I found the other Baofeng radios by watching youtube videos, to see if the radio spoke when
it was turned on.
A good number of these radios that use external speech modules are going to be difficult to make talk, since the
speech modules are generally not made anymore, and finding used speech synthesizer modules isn't exactly an easy
task, but I'm hoping by offering as complete a list as possible, others will learn what radios can be used, and
(hopefully) prepare ahead of time before purchasing the radios so they can get the maximum use out of them.
Of course, having a radio doesn't help if you don't know where those radios can be used.
Sometimes, I had to watch multiple videos on the same radio, because some folks would claim it's an
unboxing/startup video, only to explain (halfway through the video), that they changed settings while not
recording, to speed up things they're showing in the videos. *grumble* That's not an accurate unboxing demo in
my opinion, but
I always thought Baofeng could make their radios nearly 100 percent accessible just by adding a speech readout
for the current frequency. Perhaps by tapping the lock button (on models that have them, and perhaps the number
sign key for those other models), since it takes a long press to activate the button otherwise.
Knowing what frequency you're on would go a
I find that in general, folks have a hard time, especially after being newly licensed, knowing which frequencies
they can use, and which ones they have to share.
Well, wonder no more.
In the following listings, ITU region 2 is the only one shown, and the list of all hams frequencies should be
consulted before checking the specific license class, since the specific license list shows what's available in
each band for that particular license.
here's a link to show you which frequencies are for use by hams only
You should look at the list of frequencies for All amateur radio licenses before
checking the individual license files
Here's a list showing which frequencies Novice and technician licensees can
use.
Here's the list for general class amateurs,
Here's the one for advanced class amateurs
and here's the list for extra class licenses.
Hope to see you on the air, and feel free to drop a line and let me know you found my page, I'd
appreciate it.
KQ4DZK at softcon dot com