Comments on: Child Locators http://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/ GPS Tracking For Kids, Teens, and Parents Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joehttp://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/comment-page-1/#comment-14385 Joe Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:03:23 +0000 http://www.gpsfortoday.com/?p=113#comment-14385 Hi Tracey, Sorry to hear about the double charge. These things are expensive enough without getting double billed! It is a double bummer that the device didn't work as billed for you. A lot of the regular GPS devices do have trouble indoors since they work best when they have access to the unobstructed sky. That is why a lot of the modern trackers use A-GPS. That stands for Assisted GPS and it uses cell phone signals to help the GPS determine where it is when the information from the GPS satellites is incomplete. It even works better in open areas, refining the position to a much smaller margin of error. If you are looking into a device now then an A-GPS device is definitely the first thing you want to look for. - Joe Hi Tracey,

Sorry to hear about the double charge. These things are expensive enough without getting double billed!

It is a double bummer that the device didn’t work as billed for you. A lot of the regular GPS devices do have trouble indoors since they work best when they have access to the unobstructed sky. That is why a lot of the modern trackers use A-GPS. That stands for Assisted GPS and it uses cell phone signals to help the GPS determine where it is when the information from the GPS satellites is incomplete. It even works better in open areas, refining the position to a much smaller margin of error.

If you are looking into a device now then an A-GPS device is definitely the first thing you want to look for.

- Joe

]]> By: Traceyhttp://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/comment-page-1/#comment-14374 Tracey Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:02:24 +0000 http://www.gpsfortoday.com/?p=113#comment-14374 Buyer beware with the child locator. i purchased it to help track my son with autism. He bolts and wanders. The child locator works much better outdoors and is absolutely lousy indoors (tested in numerous indoor locations with a variety of indoor materials). It really is not useful. On top of that disappointment, the company charged my credit card twice for the product and has refused to refund the error for seven months now! What a disappointment. What a scam. :-( Buyer beware with the child locator. i purchased it to help track my son with autism. He bolts and wanders. The child locator works much better outdoors and is absolutely lousy indoors (tested in numerous indoor locations with a variety of indoor materials). It really is not useful. On top of that disappointment, the company charged my credit card twice for the product and has refused to refund the error for seven months now! What a disappointment. What a scam. :-(

]]> By: Rogerhttp://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/comment-page-1/#comment-7992 Roger Tue, 25 May 2010 16:17:52 +0000 http://www.gpsfortoday.com/?p=113#comment-7992 How about a simple camping/mountains GPS locator? "Long range" is useless if there isn't a cell signal on both ends. Kids go missing in the forest a lot. A "medium range" item like a hunting dog GPS collar (Garmin Astro) would be great but I don't think the collars are small enough to fit on my son. LOL. How about a simple camping/mountains GPS locator?

“Long range” is useless if there isn’t a cell signal on both ends.

Kids go missing in the forest a lot. A “medium range” item like a hunting dog GPS collar (Garmin Astro) would be great but I don’t think the collars are small enough to fit on my son. LOL.

]]> By: Robert Coganhttp://www.gpsfortoday.com/child-locators/comment-page-1/#comment-7423 Robert Cogan Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:17:16 +0000 http://www.gpsfortoday.com/?p=113#comment-7423 What is the range of the long range GPS locator services? Can I use one from the U.S. northeast, Pennsylvania, if needed, to find a 'phone in the Washington D.C. area? How about tracking an adult child on vacation in Europe? Is there a kind of phone available from Verizon with this capability? Thanks What is the range of the long range GPS locator services? Can I use one from the U.S. northeast, Pennsylvania, if needed, to find a ‘phone in the Washington D.C. area? How about tracking an adult child on vacation in Europe? Is there a kind of phone available from Verizon with this capability? Thanks

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