Thread: tracking police gps

Yup the company I work for wants to track their field service vehicles with the same GPS tracking units. They transmit the GPS coordinates of each vehicle back to a receiver.

Their used to be this radio/detector called i believe Bearclaw ... or something like that .... and you could input police frequencies into it .... and it would detect if someone was getting close to that area.

My friend bought it ... i odnt think he liked it very much .. but thats the only thing closest to what you want.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...category=14935

Here is it ... UNIDEN BEARTRACKER BCT-12 Mobile Scanner
Again i make no claims how well it works

Originally Posted by geoff897

hi
i wondering cos police have gps's in them if you have gps can you find there frequency and find where they are??

Tracker actually consist of two components in the car. GPS is used to get the position. A transmitter of some form or another then sends that position back to the tracking station.
Most commercial systems (including our VTU ) transfer the data by using mobile phone technology. With our system you make a data call to the tracking device from the supplied software. This returns the lat/long and the units position is displayed on street level maps on your pc.

http://www.radartest.com/article.asp?articleID=8000

I searched around and the BCT-8 seems to be the comparable current unit. The BCT-12 is discontinued.

can be done much like n e thing else is possible. would have to spend much money and time. as well as know more than what you can search for off the internet. so if i was you i would just become a police man much easier. or become someone they buy from. good luck and remember they are our friends perhaps we can only help them see as well as us see. to much of a good thing can often turn bad. some where in the middle....

bct-12 is outdated and the bct-8 isnt anything special.

Alot of cops are switching to digital here are two units uniden makes
BC796D & BC296D

Radio Shack sells one Pro-96

My local PD/highway patrol/SD uses AVL to track officers. It uses either uhf/vhf/800mhz radio to send the position back to dispatch.