Whats the best and lightest way to send jounals to a transcriber.
I was thinking of using a SD Memory Card to send pictures, it would be great if I could also put my daily audio diary on it too.
Do digital dictating us SD Memory Chips
Any Ideas
Rocky65 aka Bob
Rocky65
I used SD cards for pics, and it worked great. I hand-wrote my journal and sent the pages via USPS to my wife for keying into TJ. Several hikers carried handheld devices and downloaded by landline. In two weeks all that technology will be obsolete, though.
Mango
MANGO wrote: In two weeks all that technology will be obsolete, though.
Do tell!!
Hammock Hanger
I had a bad experience with sending my pictures home on an sd card. The envelope tore in the post office and card got lost. No pictures from Springer Mt.!! (guess I’ll just have to go back to the beginning and start all over:)
I hand wrote my journal and mailed it home - that made it ok. I would go to a cvs or wall mart and put my photos on a cd and mail that home
HeartFire
I’ve never had a journal and do not know exactly what is involved in actually posting an entry. Liz and I are planning a long distance hike next year. I know little about new technology but we would like to post our own journal entries if that were possible. Any ideas (other than carrying a laptop or stopping at libraries)? Understanding that we would need to be in an area where email service was available and battery life woull also be an issue, what about the Blackberry 8800? Thanks for any input.
ed
Hi Ed
I used a Blackberry on my 2005 hike and had no issues. It was probably a good thing since I love to write and would have just kept “blabbing” if not having the Blackberry to limit me a bit. I did not use the backlight, and typically left it off if not typing journal entries. I charged the battery about every 5 days during town stops. I’ve tried the Pocketmail and Blackberry and prefer the Blackberry. I was using Cingular at the time, and there were very few places I did not have a signal for more than a day. Sometimes I would leave it on in the top of the pack and when it would get a signal I could hear it send and receive mail. I would turn it off after it had finished. Blackberries don’t appear to be that common, but mine worked out great.
Mayfly
To make a good Jounal is a fair amount of work and some ( actually lots) of skill and time.
Thata why I found a person ( Transriber ) that I will send my pictures and diary to and they massage into a nice document.
Rocky65 aka Bob:cheers
Rocky65
I used a PocketMail for my hike this year. It weighed 7.6 ounces with two lithium AA batteries in it. It acts as a portable motem. In the real world, this device is completely obsolete but I loved it for the trail. You type an email for every journal entry and then save it on the device. When you get to a land line, you just press a button and send and receive emails. The longest I ever had to go between sending was about six days, other than that it was usually 4-5. The lithium batteries lasted about two months at a time and I used the light on everyday. I highly recommend this and have one sitting here if you need it!
Nicole
I used a Pocketmail in 2002-03-04. In 2005 I was lucky enough to have a company give me a Pocket PC ($700.00 retail at the time). It was so cool like carrying a complete computer in my pocket. Could get and send email and surf the web, including WB and TJ while hanging in my hammock. Problem was that a device like that is made for people who live in the real world and can plug it in at least every 48 hours or so. Unfortunately I was unable to find the trees with outlets. So after some frustration, I went back to my tried and true Pocketmail that uses batteries that last forever. Like Nicole said in today’s world a Pocketmail is obsolete but living in the woods is not the “real world”.
Hammock Hanger