No GPS- Try this

Richary · Post by **Richary** » 13 August 04 12:38 am

So TP, can you tell us what coord system it is using? As I said it seems to come out a bit from where I *believe* I am getting the signal. Drove past the other locations on the map using AGD66 and WGS84 and there weren't any towers there. Demo'ed it in town today to someone else but it wouldn't work for them on Optus.

team unicycle · Post by **team unicycle** » 06 November 06 9:54 am

I hadn't tried this before, but did this morning on my work Telstra mobile. All I got was an SMS with the text "False" in it. So does that mean I'm not 171-LOST, or that I gave the wrong answer in one of those phone quiz scams?<br />

However, this site purports to be able to locate a phone

Post by **caughtatwork** » 06 November 06 10:34 am

team unicycle wrote:I hadn't tried this before, but did this morning on my work Telstra mobile. All I got was an SMS with the text "False" in it. So does that mean I'm not 171-LOST, or that I gave the wrong answer in one of those phone quiz scams?<br />

However, this site purports to be able to locate a phone

NSFW

Map Monkey · Post by **Map Monkey** » 06 November 06 11:07 am

The trial period for this SMS service has been over for quite some time.....note the thread was last talked about 2 years ago

mm

Zytheran · Post by **Zytheran** » 06 November 06 2:26 pm

team unicycle wrote:So, who's going to do the multi?<br><br>

Go to location X Y. Send a Telstra SMS to 1715678. Cache is hidden at the received coordinates.

Considering the received coords are for the *tower*, I think the terrain will be 5 star to deal with the razor wire, Piggys alarms, being slowly fried by microwave repeaters and the 25m fall.

Maybe only 4 1/2 star if not too far up?

(Of course if it's Optus

I wouldn't worry about the microwave level, just dodge the carrier pigeons coming to and fro)

team unicycle · Post by **team unicycle** » 06 November 06 2:29 pm

map monkey wrote:The trial period for this SMS service has been over for quite some time.....note the thread was last talked about 2 years ago

mm

That may be the case, but given ...

Team Piggy wrote:We fit security to a lot of Telstra huts, City & remote, and this is how we actually find most of them. Have for years.

...I thought it would be around for more years

The Garner Family · Post by **The Garner Family** » 06 November 06 3:16 pm

caughtatwork wrote:
team unicycle wrote: However, this site purports to be able to locate a phone
NSFW

I was wondering how on earth it could be NSFW... I should have listened

Team Piggy · Post by **Team Piggy** » 06 November 06 9:02 pm

That was 2 years ago remember ! We use GPS now !