If someone stole my handheld GPS system, i can basically find out who has it right?
The police would find out where my GPS system is right? because it knows where its self is, can police use this to find out where the stealer is because he has my GPS system?
but can't they follow the signal that goes To my gps unit?
Well, it also has WIFI for internet in it, can that help?
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- No. The satellites tell your GPS receiver where the GPS receiver is. Your GPS does not send any out any signals to tell anyone where IT is. It is a one way system unless it is hooked up to a transmitter (cell phone) to report back to someone where it is located. added: "Follow the signal" No. A television station cannot "Follow its signal" to find out who is watching. Your GPS unit is a receiver only....it does not transmit out any information.
- not the police,,,
- The device would have to be equipped with some sort of transmitter that would tell someone where it was. A GPS unit is a receiver - it receives a GPS signal and, from that signal, extrapolates information that it translates into the data you see. It tells you where you are through the screen but by no other means - meaning it DOES NOT transmit a signal as to where it is. Sorry.
- no, unless your GPS has a locator that sends its signal somewhere, for a locator, It knows where it is, but it does not send a signal to ID itself for its location. They make some models that do, but normally you pay a service charge montly for that service
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