[gps-talkusers] Re: An answer to a fellow user's question:
- From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
- To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 08:18:24 -0700
And how do you get on the trekker mailing list? I didn't know there was such
an animal.
I think both products are extremely useful in very different ways and love
both of them.
They are two completely different animals with 2 different philosophies
behind the development of them.
Mary Ellen Earls
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 4:49 AM
Subject: [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.
> >
> >
>
>
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