[gps-talkusers] Re: An answer to a fellow user's question:

Hello there,

There is a way to get mileage with the trekker.  You have to create a root
and look at it in the browse mode.  When you are there go to the info sub
menu and look in root.  If you go to the trekker mailing list the folks
there will help.  I am not trying to put these two products in a competitive
situation because the work that mike did was the first, and I really
appreciate it.  I use my trekker every day, and I think that GPS for the
blind is as important as a talking dictionary.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 8:42 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] An answer to a fellow user's question:


> Hi!
> I believe that one of the subscribers asked this morning, if I found a
difference in sensitivity between the trekker and braille-note gps's.
> Ok here is what I did. Part of my walking routine takes me through an
enclosure which houses different entrences to stores in a strip mall. It is
not inside a building, but is the outside entrences facing a parking lot and
there is a kind of decorative wall and a small roof overhead so you get a
tunnel effect when you walk down this passage. My Delorme receiver on the
Braille Note gps does not loose signal at all in this enclosure but the
Trekker, I just found out in the last half hour does.
> Does anyone know if Radio Shack still sells the talking pedometer or will
I have to go to a Blindness products supplier for such a device? I think I
want one so I can utilize the trekker because I really like the weight and
size of it.
> Mary Ellen Earls.
> P. S. I was going to go to a lovely park on our town square which is on an
island in the middle of about 6 streets to see how the trekker's "free mode"
operated but I brought in a zacada on my trekker strap and after I flushed
him down the loo I decided being dive-bombed 3 different times in a space of
1 and a half minutes by these insipid animals was quite enough. I'll do it
after the parade tomorrow.
> Bye for now.
> M. E.. E.
>
>

Other related posts: