Try RocketHunter.com. We use these to track our rockets. Transmits for several miles. A single battery can last a week. Transmitters are about the size of a 9 volt battery and costs $125. Receivers are a bit pricey. $500 with a Yaggi hand held antenna. Nate Carlson <tclug at natecarlson.com> wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Harv Nelson wrote: > then, I guess I'm back to Ham radio and the APRS sytem. it'd work for > what I want to do, except that two dogs would have to run off together. > one to carry the gps receiver, TNC and VHF tranceiver and the other to > carry the battery paks. and they don't much like each other as it is. I > was hoping the commercial guys had bested the hams but, again, all > capitalism means is hype. Well, you could always get one of the PocketPC phones with an integrated GPS.. I dunno how much dog it would stand, though - mine would last under a minute with my pup. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070421/0d160670/attachment-0001.htm