[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 09:44:01 -0700

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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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