[gps-talkusers] Re: An answer to a fellow user's question:
- From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 06:43:37 -0600
Hello,
I agree. The list is trekker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It is very much like this
list. There are people from Visuaide on that list, and they have been very
helpful, and they have also made changes based on our suggestions. They
also don't mind generalized discussions and they don't permit flaming.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 9:18 AM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: An answer to a fellow user's question:
> 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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