your own bike/car tracker for 120 quid, NO SUBSCRIPTION.

[lllN30lll]

dunno if you saw my other thread but i've been searching for a tracking device for my next bike and a mate told me about these from Maplins.

what do you reckon? this time theres no subscription, you basically text it/ring it and it texts you back with longitude/latitude readings. you then use google earth to find where it is.

https://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?criteria=personal%20tracker&source=15&SD=Y

you can wire it in to your existing loom/battery and it's normal battery's then act as a backup.

will definately be going to maplins to get one of these.
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[Hetzer]

That looks to be a seriously good bit of kit!
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[lllN30lll]

the other one I posted a few days ago seemed similar to this kit, but I found out the other kits charge you to look where your bike is. this time there's no charge, you basically just insert a spare pay as you go sim in (with credit on) or use an 02 sim that gives you 500 free texts.
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[ms51ves3]

I'm going topping my bike up with fuel and credit

[Ant]

intresting idea but in the FAQ's

[lllN30lll]

[trevoriv]

But yet again you wont know its gone until its already too late and when you check the gps to get the long/lat reading you find its somewhere in a scrapyard in deepest darkest dudley.

You really aint going to go down there and get it back are you and the police arent going to take your word for it.
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[Damon]

can't you just wire in a step down transformer of some sort? Or just a resistor

[lllN30lll]

[G]

The 'panic' button could be interesting - wire this up to an alarm so it goes off if the bike is moved instead of the alarm sounding.

However, ideally I'd want something that alerted me if the vehicle is moved in regards to the GPS location if I had it on a specific setting.

[trevoriv]

[Shay HTFC]

[carsounds_dan]

top thiefs these days can buy systems that block the UHF frequancies trackers use. I fit trackers at work and we nearly got done in for "incorrect fitting" but turned out the theifs had this bit of kit... its about the size of a mobile phone aswell.
cheers
dan
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[Shay HTFC]

[carsounds_dan]

well it the tracker system uses GPS and GSM network signals for long range and only after that signal has been sent does the UHF signal get released. If you think that a few years back people could buy mobile phone blockers I dont think that for hard-core theifs they'd particularly care.. but tbh if a thief wants your bike they will find every way possible to sort it out.
cheers
dan
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[01dabreoo]

Getting a location from a mobile isn't very accurate.
When the ambulance service track mobiles they can only get a rough idea of where you are calling from, at best they can determine the street you are on.
Police may be able to track better, as they have more money to channel into that sort of tech. but i doubt that car tracker would use police tech.

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[truslack]

[Drew]

[carsounds_dan]

well anyone who wants car chargers of the phone type let me know as i can "aquire them" from work when needed.
cheers
dan
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[truslack]

[Drew]