CompuServe Messages

Hi, Lanny > A half hour later in the hose I turned it on and it had 4 satellites in > under 2 minutes. Sounds familiar – and when you are showing it off to a friend, and he has 3 SV's acquired, you tell him that when it locks in a fourth it will display the altitude. At that point it instantly acquires the fourth satellite and then the fifth, and _still_ steadfastly refuses to reveal its altitude guesstimate. 🙂 Not to worry – I didn't buy it for an altimiter. The big suprise I got was the Thomas Guide interface. I wasn't aware that it could tell me which Thomas Guide, which detail page, the grid square, and the quadrant within the square I am standing in! Now if we could just get the Thomas folks to produce detail maps of all the mineral areas! 😉 Guy P.S. There ought to be some kind of game that could be played on-line with these devices. Something on the order of: You send me coordinates of a local (to you) landmark, I send back an offset from my local landmark, and you try to compute the location of my landmark. Points could be given based on: 1, Takes a tactical nuclear device. 2, close enough for hand grenades or horseshoes. 3, Spot on. 🙂 P.P.S. I joined REI when I bought the Tricorder. I hope the DOD cleans up the signal too.