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.<br><br><b><i>Nate Carlson <tclug@natecarlson.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007, Harv Nelson wrote:<br>> then, I guess I'm back to Ham radio and the APRS sytem. it'd work for <br>> what I want to do, except that two dogs would have to run off together. <br>> one to carry the gps receiver, TNC and VHF tranceiver and the other to <br>> carry the battery paks. and they don't much like each other as it is. I <br>> was hoping the commercial guys had bested the hams but, again, all <br>> capitalism means is hype.<br><br>Well, you could always get one of the
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