No GPS- Try this

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No GPS- Try this

Post by ian-and-penny » 09 August 04 8:52 pm

Left your GPS behind, try this

(I found this on anothr forum. It's useful for it's novelty value only.)

Use your mobile phone to get the GPS position of the nearest tower. If you send a blank message (without any text typed) to 1715678 you will receive a message back with the position (in DD.mmm format).

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Post by Richary » 09 August 04 11:39 pm

Interesting, worked fine for me with Telstra GSM here in Adelaide.

But my local cell identifies as Morphettville and I am fairly sure it is coming off the Morphettville Racecourse where there are a lot of mobile antennas.

Plotting the location on the map in both AGD66 & WGS84 puts me either 500 or 700 metres out from where I would think it is. Having said that I might have to drive past the 2 locations shown and see if there is a tower there I haven't seen. Both locations shown are in side streets that I wouldn't normally visit.

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Post by The Spindoctors » 10 August 04 10:01 pm

No luck on Optus GSM.

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Post by Team Piggy » 10 August 04 10:43 pm

Amazed if you got signal next to an Optus tower with Optus ;)

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Post by team unicycle » 10 August 04 11:24 pm

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.

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Post by Team Piggy » 11 August 04 12:03 am

Shh, Youv'e given away the Piggy Master plan. We knew about this from some work we do for Telstra, and have been waiting to release one that uses this method.

We also have some maps that show the optimum coverage from each tower.

Naturally they can help to ensure you lock onto the right signal.
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Post by Richary » 11 August 04 12:40 am

If with Telstra SMS to this number and go to the location.

If with Optus SMS and add/subtract these numbers

If with Vodafone SMS and add/subtract different numbers

If on CDMA cross your fingers and hope.

Be a nice idea otherwise though. Would be a very nice way to hide something. And hope they don't build another tower! :)

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Post by RickJL » 11 August 04 6:22 pm

Nokia CDMA didn't want to send a blank message :?

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Post by rav 4 raiders » 12 August 04 1:52 pm

Team Piggy wrote:Amazed if you got signal next to an Optus tower with Optus ;)
Looks like some Optus bashing going on here - look out you don't know which companies other cachers may work for!

:P

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Post by Mix » 12 August 04 3:00 pm

rav 4 raiders wrote:
Team Piggy wrote:Amazed if you got signal next to an Optus tower with Optus ;)
Looks like some Optus bashing going on here - look out you don't know which companies other cachers may work for!

:P
ItÂ’s funny how USERS of big crap services like Telstra, Windows, etcÂ… always find smaller options (Optus, MAC) threatening.

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Post by Dooghan » 12 August 04 3:40 pm

I'm a PC user but I think MAC's are great computers. One problem with them is the software I need I can't get or it costs an arm and leg for it.

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Post by tolmh » 12 August 04 9:02 pm

No luck with Vodafone on my LG 5300i - just a 'network error' message.

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Post by EcoTeam » 12 August 04 9:56 pm

I get a "message not sent this time" on my Vodaphone Nokia 3110

EcoDave :)

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Post by caughtatwork » 12 August 04 10:53 pm

It's a Telstra Research Lab test and obviously shouldn't be relied up on in times of emergency.

As it's a TRL test, I wouldn't expect it to be up on any other Network at the moment.

I would hazard a guess that it will eventually be used so when you call 1234 and ask for a decent restaurant in the area, the location of the utilised base station will come with the call to 1234 so they can work out where you are and what's around you.

BTW:
1715678 = 171LOST

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Post by Team Piggy » 12 August 04 11:09 pm

From what the Techs tell me, its that (Above thread) and also so techs can find the cell in their directories if they are lost !

Could be a Telstra Urban myth but who knows.

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

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