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

Thanks very much for that info, excellent indeed, and much better than using a 
light probe!
As they say: Every cloud has a silver lining!

Sylvia.


> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Don Bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: "gps users list" <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 15:06:32 -0700
>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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