Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-09 | Page 18 | Wisconsin Blind Man Builds Own Radio Apparatus

T I r Wisconsin 1 Blind BlindMan In InI 1 i iMan s I Man Builds Owna Own Radio a io Apparatus ara us usLA LA CROSSE Wi Wis June 8 AP For AP-For For six y years ars Michael Mateske blind nd has been een looking I at the world through his radio transmitting and receiving s set t. t D Despite spit his handicap Mateske assembled the units of his transmitter transmitter trans trans- mitter and has been working amateur stations in very every e Y state except Maine and Vermont He copies Pies messages on a machine that makes perforations it in a tape The messages are deciPhered deci- deci hered b by touch Mateske is proficient in handling han- han ahng various types of transmit transmit- transmitters tors and has repaired sets eh In addition sta sta- to o operating station tion ion Mateske operates pera es a astore astore astore store