I have been searching the net and Amazon for a Magnetic Mini USB cable for my 996 and 536, trying to save wear and tear on the mini USB port, does such a cable exist? They have everything else Micro USB, Lightining, etc preferably a Angled it’s hard to press the “E” on the 536 with a cable plugged in! Uniden didn’t think that one out very well since you have to choose either “.” Or “E” when using the usb cable I don’t have huge fingers but only a small child could easily press the “E” while a cable is in without touching the usb cable! I think this could cause issues in the long run! My other issue is Eyesight it’s not the greatest anymore and it’s hard for me to see the buttons well I just feel for them, (hopefully getting better glasses in 2019 waiting on a change in my insurance next year
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...My other issue is Eyesight it’s not the greatest anymore and it’s hard for me to see the buttons well I just feel for them, (hopefully getting better glasses in 2019 waiting on a change in my insurance next year
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I'm right there with you, well really most likely way past you, with the eyesight issue. I am legally blind and have been since September 2001. I was amazed at how well I knew my radios by feel when I couldn't see them at all for over a year. It was impossible for me to confirm if I was actually programming everything right. But thankfully a lot of the radios had software because it was pretty new to the radio game. But a lot of them didn't also. It was probably about 8 years before the vision in the one eye I have very little in could be considered at its best. And thank God, the brain does rewire itself and you learn to do things you thought you'd never be able to do again. I just wish that included driving haha. I have my trusty high-powered magnifying glass that I got through the commission for the blind back around the end of 2002. It's been chewed on by dogs, scratched to death, and who knows what else. It's being held together buy a tie strap and has been for about 10 years
I completely know what you mean by the difficulties in using many of the radios or pressing the right button even. I was really happy by the customization I could do on the SDS 100 screen. But I still have to have the trusty old magnifying glass with me most of the time and my Google Voice to Text, which I'm using right now, on my phone. It's difficult to do things on a computer but it is much, much easier. I managed to get most things done even if they aren't always 100% correct nowadays but it's through trial and error a lot of times. I think that a lot of people who are into radios has been into them for a long time. I don't see a lot of the younger generation very interested. And as is normal, that means a lot of the people that are older do start having normal vision problems. I've been wondering if the manufacturers have been taking this into consideration? And I think they have. The screens are much easier to see or adjust on many radios and I've even run across a few that have a audibel voice capability. I hope that in the future more and more manufacturers will realize that a lot of people do have vision problems and continue implementing measures that help.
I just want to make one thing clear here. This is not my account I'm posting this on because mine will not and allow me to login anymore for some weird reason. It's been going on for so long that I don't even remember the password for my old account. So the name for this account that it is being posted from is a friends and I just didn't want anybody to mistake my post about my vision as being from him. I never did do much Forum posting in the past but since I have put Tapatalk on my phone it has become a lot easier. Anyhow, now back to the regular radio topics...
Brian (COMMSCAN )
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