I’ve started suffering from a severe progressive loss of visual acuity, and am looking for alternatives for logging short of getting another person to sit beside me.
So far, I’m able to do the hiking once I get to the trailhead (friends, public transport). But I have very little central vision.
Using my smartphone for logging is no longer viable (impossible to operate the keypad). I won’t be investing in an expensive tablet until I know how things are progressing and know if it’s a mid- to long-erm solution.
I’m currently using a magic marker on paper (lines from ink pens are too thin to read easily), but trying to write when you can’t really see what you’re doing isn’t easy. That makes deciphering the log sheet later lots of fun.
I’ve thought about an audio recording directly from my KX2 into some device (I’m 95% CW). Any suggestions on a good device to use here? And how to handle time stamping? The KX2 memory is too short for more than a few QSOs, and I don’t have the timestamp module.
Any other suggestions from fellow visually impaired activators would be quite welcome.
tnx, 73
Paul HB9DST / AA1MI