[gps-talkusers] Re: Excited about my GPS Weekend

Joleen,

That is  very nice to hear that you had the chance to give directions to 
others , be a tour guide for you and your friend, also experience with in in 
a college campus, vehicle with the taxi driver and your husband. This is 
just the start of the GPS adventure, I am sure that you will find many more 
uses for the GPS.

waas is is a correctional system that is a ground based satellite that 
correct  signals that are sent from the satellites in outerspace that in 
turn go to your waas enabled receiver.  waas is something that appears once 
in a while dependant on the sensativvity of your reciever and in order to 
receive waas you must have waas enabled on your receiver, with newer 
receivers you will be more likely to receive the  correction that is 
produced from waas I think the best correction that I received with the waas 
correction was up to 9 feet, but that was tracking 12 satellites. It stands 
for wide area augmented system and is something that is available in North 
America, in other countries such as China, Japan, Europe and the UK, they 
are working on different systems simular to the waas system here in North 
America, the current one in Europe and that area is egnos.

I hope this helps, and happy Sendero GPSing

Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joleen" <cjferg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 7:35 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Excited about my GPS Weekend


> Hi All,
>
> I wanted to share my GPS weekend with all of you.  As a new user, just 
> about a week's experience, I set off on a train trip with a friend, also 
> blind.  We listened to my Sendero as it kept us updated on the train 
> speed, the points of interest, the towns we passed and on and on.  How fun 
> it was to know where we were along our trip.
>
> When we reached the end of the run, we took a taxi to our destination and 
> I used the GPS with a route open between the train station and the 
> destination.  I told the driver that I was practicing and he was impressed 
> that I was able to tell him where I thought we should turn.  I told him 
> that I knew he knew his way, but I was learning the new system.
>
> I was able to record some user POI's for the college campus where I spent 
> the weekend.  When it was time to go, one participant wanted directions to 
> the bus stop.  Knowing that I had lots of bus information available, I 
> found stops and she confirmed the one she needed.  I also learned that the 
> numbers that had seemed irrevelent before turned out to be the bus 
> numbers.  Never mind that my search from our known location was only 313 
> feet, I found what I thought should be the bus stop and, low and behold, 
> there sat the bus.  She would have missed it if she had waited where 
> others told her it should be.  It was already parked and the driver soon 
> came out from the building and boarded the bus.  He would not have seen 
> her waiting about 300 feet behind him.  I was thrilled with my GPS.
>
> Later, after the return train trip, when my husband met and drove us home, 
> I set a route to my friend's house.  The Sendero told us where to turn. 
> This was not news for my husband, but it was certainly fun for me.
>
> I noticed that the WAAS satellite was intermittently available.  I wonder 
> if it is turned on for brief periods or if it is intermittent because of 
> my GPS changing view of the sky.
>
> This coming weekend, my husband and I will be traveling to new territory 
> and I am hopeful that I will have enough experience to help him with 
> directions as we go.  Very excited,
>
> Joleen
>
>

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