[pct-l] GPS locators

[wpsnotebook at charter.net (Richard Woods)]

Cool! Do it at the Kick-off! Do the whole 2006 class! We'd know when  
they were sneakin' rides, taking unauthorized zero days, wandering  
off trail!

Rick

On Mar 12, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Tortoise wrote:

> Now let's see.
>
> We get a big research grant thru some university.
>
> We dart and tranquilize a few thru hikers. Attach radio locater  
> collars with GPS units inside; the collars would transmit time and  
> location up to a satellite then relay the signal down to the  
> research station. Then we could do a great nature show for PBS or  
> Discovery about tracking the wild thru hikers.
>
> Hmmmm, this sounds like a project for Switchback.
>
> ----------
> Tortoise
>
> I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
> Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/ 
> thunderbird/
>
> Richard Woods wrote:
>> Just saw a movie last night - the hero tracks his dog who is  
>> wearing a GPS locator collar. Occurs to me that if I was carrying  
>> one,(a locator, not a collar;)!!) - anybody with the code could  
>> find me fairly accurately, and follow along day by day.
>> Rick