On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, John Rodgers<inua@charter.net> wrote: > Little black boxes! Hmmmm! On a trip into the boonies such as this has > anyone ever thought about taking along one of those personal emergency > locator beacons that can be picked up by satellite in orbit to locate > someone in distress? It only takes three passes of the satellite to have > you triangulated and pinpointed. I guess GPS tells you where you are, > but no one else knows. > > John Rodgers > 88 G Driver >
Though not entirely related, I recall reading a post of a fellow who hid a cheap prepaid cell phone in his Westy. Had it wired so it would charge and had it "on" all the time. The idea being that if vehicle stolen, it could be traced via signal from phone. Not sure of details, but I gather some kind of signal from phone can be triangulated. (one would call the phone?) Neil.
-- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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