[gps-talkusers] Re: determining whether the blue logger is on or off

Ok ok here is a way you can tell both on the mpowerand pk if your receiver is on.
Let's assume you have set everything up and your receiver isin some position and you are pretty sure its on, you have counted your 3 or 4 seconds or put it up next to your hearing aid. Now, go into the gps menu and if it is _NOT_ on, you will get the message "GPS receiver not detected, sometimes even before you type the G.
Now if the receiver _IS_ on, and if it _Is_ paired you will hear a long silence and then "GPS MENU."
I prefer to take the easy way out and carry a light probe which lets me know if the light on the receiver is flashing.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicky Collins" <v-collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 3:59 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: determining whether the blue logger is on or off


Well, grin, I just gave up and let the PK tell me when the receiver is off
and on. For, if the receiver is off, then of course it won't be detected
when I try to start GPS. And, when I'm ready to stop using the GPS, I
always turn the receiver off first, so I will then be told that the receiver
isn't detected. Now, this can take a couple of times of trial and error,
but it eventually does work. I do find, though, that this process takes
just a bit less time using the BT-338 receiver than it does with the Blue
Logger.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "gps users list" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 5:06 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] determining whether the blue logger is on or off


Just had an interesting experience with the blue Logger bluetooth receiver.

My wife just got her MPower transplant and it now has gps v3.3 on it. I had
to play with the blue logger a bit of course and found that it can be tricky
to tell
whether the receiver is on or off.

But I did find a very reliable way to tell.  The only problem is that you
need to be wearing hearing aids for this to work.

If you are wearing aids, turn on your t-coil which you normally use for the
telephone or whatever. Put the logger receiveer up to your ear. When the
receiver is on you will hear sort of a buzzing sound. Press the button and
hold for about 4 seconds and then release. The buzz will fade away and stop
after
a second. Now you know the receiver is off.

If you press the button again and hold it for about 2 seconds you will hear
the buzz again and if you release the button, the buzz continues so you know
that
the receiver is on.


For the hearing impaired, this is actually better than some receivers which
will put out a beep but it is usually so quiet that you really can't hear it
with aids.

As for those who don't wear aids, I don't know what to tell ya.

Don












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