Hi
     Personally, I would be interested in a garmon too. I just haven't found 
a stand alone one that appeared blind friendly. If you know of one or how to 
adapt one please let me know.

God bless,
Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kallie Swanepoel" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: talking gps?


> I'd rather go for one of the Garman products, but most of the models I'm
> interested in has touch screens. Also it's not speaking in menus etc.
> One of their staff at support once asked me "what does a blind person
> want to do with a Garman?"
>
>
> 73
> ZS6KCS
>
> Kallie Swanepoel
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
> Sent: 08 July 2007 22:36
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: talking gps?
>
>
> Well, I am not really impressed so far.  I borrowed this thing from a
> friend who had let the battery run down, so it lost everything.  I
> finally
> got street talk working enough to tell me where I was, but had a heck of
> a
> time telling how to reconnect to the gps receiver.  Maybe it is
> simple--I
> never figured it out.  I was doing some testing yesterday and the damn
> thing locked up solid.  I had to do a total reset.  Lost all my installs
>
> 73s
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
>
> and so forth.  I'm really not sure if I'll bother again for a while.
>
>