WHat type of a place is this, and do you go outside for anything like in
between buildings?





On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Danny Dyer wrote:

> 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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