Hi Bret, thanks, please keep me posted, dd
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From: "Brett Winchester" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: ALittleOT SortOfGpsTypeSystemQuestion4uGuys
> I understand that some work is occurring that will use the overhead
> flourescent lights as modulated radiators to allow for indoor g.p.s.
> mapping functions. I do not think it is out of the labs yet however.
>
> Thank you!
>
> BRETT K WINCHESTER PM KD7JN
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 4/6/2006 9:04 AM >>>
> Hi Folks, wonder if you can help me here. I'm a lifetime blind/except
> for
> light perception, longtime ham who's thankfully now working in a
> _large
> super center type facility. I carry an Icom IC-t90A with me, and I'm
> Trying
> To Figure a dependable time efficient way to get from one established
> point
> to another established point in that facility where much of the
> interveening
> landscape/storescape constantly changes.
> Is there any kind of transmitter-receiver system, or just transmitting
> device which emits a carrier with tone or anything else, which would
> give
> you an audible indication, IE, pitch rising or falling, pulses
> increasing or
> decreasing in speed, or something similar, as you were getting closer
> to,
> or farther away from the transmitter? A stronger S/strength signal on
> a
> meter won't help, unless a sighted person walks with me, which defeats
> the
> whole purpose here. Fellow employees, managers, and other Folks both
> have
> been, and are very helpful, in terms of rendering assistance to and
> from
> places in the store, but I don't like to take people "off task" to do
> it,
> and placement of racks and so forth is changeable enough that simply
> counting steps, etc, doesn't cut it. Any suggestions you have would
> be
> greatly appreciated, thanks, Danny Dyer, Wb4idu.
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