Thanks Jerry! I just subscribed and am waiting for a confirmation. Mary Ellen Earls ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx> To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:43 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: An answer to a fellow user's question: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >