Re: [Az-Geocaching] Geo-corraling

The Ham Radio stuff is called APRS and has been around awhile. My friend in
Seattle once gave me the website and I literally watched him drive to work
one morning! The GPS sends a signal via the Ham frequency every so-many
seconds (you can set that) and the receiver plots your location, complete
with call sign, on a map. Something like that. Maricopa Co, is currently
developing this program for search and rescue, and we in Yavapai Co are
following suit. (A licensed Ham can set up the unit on the search vehicles,
and as long as a non-Ham does not fiddle with it, it is legal (FCC wise).
Great way to automatically track your search vehicles, dog teams, etc in the
field on a search, unless of course they get in a canyon or under tree cover
where the signal is poor. Then back to ol' fashioned radios!

~~trisha "Lightning"
(I happen to be a General class Ham, N7TMY)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Farquhar" <lfar@home.com>
To: <az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:34 PM
Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geo-corraling


> I also recently read an article on the Internet about a wireless wrist
GPSR.
> Not only is it a mini GPS receiver, it's also a transmitter. You purchase
> the wrist GPS and subscribe to the wireless service. You can access your
> special web site to see on a map, where this GPSR is currently located at.
> They're selling it as a child location device. I don't remember the costs.
>
> This isn't new, but I also have a friend who has connected his GPSR to a
ham
> radio. It works similar to what many trucking companies do. His location
is
> transmitted, and is viewable on the web. I can access his web page and see
> where he's located at.
>
> Larry Farquhar
> Team "Wyle E"
> www.azjeeper.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.snaptek.com
> [mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.snaptek.com]On Behalf Of Brian
> Cluff
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 5:11 PM
> To: AZ-Geocaching
> Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Geo-corraling
>
>
> I was just watching TechTV and they were showing a collar that has a GPS
> in it that they put on a cow that lets them not only keep track of them,
> but to steer them around to where they want them. They can draw a line on
> a map of where the cows are and when the cow tries to cross the virtual
> fence it will beep in the opposite ear of the direction they want the cow
> to turn. It does this 3 time is the cow still doesn't turn it give it a
> zap like the electric fence would do.
>
> Maybe we could get ahold of one of these collars to make a moving cache :)
>
> I also read/saw somewhere that europe will be putting it's own GPS system
> in orbit in the next couple of years. They are predicting recievers that
> are dual band using both system to greatly increase the accuracy. Of
> couse that will take a lot of the fun out of Geocaching, but I'm sure we
> can come up with new ways to make it fun.
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
>
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