Security & Theft Securing tractor from theft

[denmansoft]

When I mentioned 400Mhz I wasn't implying that all of the 400-499Mhz band was usable.
There are some very good unlicensed radios (made in and for the US market) in this band.
I always treat RF data streams as unreliable and would not treat one missed report as a failure or alarm.
My favorite band for data radios is the 900mhz ISM band. Good distance/and good bandwith. Most other users have moved up to 1.8Ghz, 2.4Ghz and 900 is now cleaner than it used to be.

 

[Soundguy]

De ke4rrd

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Soundguy

 

[dixie306]

I smell a niche for a buisness here.

You sell a gps tracking unit that fits on the tractor somewhere out of sight. Then you sell monitoring service. If the tractor moves more than a predetermined distance from the area it normally is stored then the monitoring service calls the owner to see if he has it on a trailer. If the owner is not the one monitoring it then the monitoring service calls the police and vectors them to the area where the tractor is. You could make a specially designed taillight with the gps tracking unit in it or something of that nature.

Pat you want to help me design it and put up some investment capital.

we could give a 15 per cent discount to TBNers

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[John47]

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Soundguy

Time you upgraded Chris before the next solar cycle gets going! (If it ever does.. LOL)

John de KM6MB

 

[Soundguy]

I'll get around to it one day..

soundguy

 

[patrick_g]

I'm aware of that Patrick, I'm a licensed ham, have been for many years.

I think the statute of limitations has run out so I can confess that I built and operated a spark gap transmitter to communicate with a buddy a few miles away when we were in later grade school and again when I was in the 9th grade I built a better one that didn't take out all the TV sets in the neighborhood.

I first got a ham ticket in 1962 and have not been using spark since.

Pat

 

[Egon]

I built a better one that didn't take out all the TV sets in the neighborhood.

In light of the above statement do you realize there was a business venture missed out on?

 

[patrick_g]

In light of the above statement do you realize there was a business venture missed out on?

So what was that, extortion? Demand tribute or else you would wipe out reception during prime time?

Pat

 

[Egon]

So what was that, extortion? Demand tribute or else you would wipe out reception during prime time?

Pat, you have to more subtle than that. Sell magic boxes that clean up reception!

 

[patrick_g]

Pat, you have to more subtle than that. Sell magic boxes that clean up reception!

At that time TV had an an A.M. component of the transmission and was susceptible to static interference so there wasn't really anything I could have put in the box to "fix" the problem.

I get the general idea though... create a problem and then sell the solution... not unlike writing and secretly distributing/promulgating "malware" to "infect" PC computers clandestinely but publicly denouncing the antisocial miscreants doing the dastardly deed and then sell software to detect/cure the infections by annual subscription.

Pat

 

[gemini5362]

Pat who would write malware and infect a computer with it then sell the software to fix the problem. I cannot imagine anyone doing that. How dastardly.

 

[alternety]

I just read through this thread. Back to old computing things. For scale of hard drives. An early Univac shipboard computer system used a couple of Fastran disk drives. When mounted in a destroyer the gyroscopic effects of the spinning disks would interfere with the DD making turns. Now that was a disk drive. But the case they came in had guns.

 

[dmccarty]

Somehow I missed this thread....

The first 5.25 inch floppy I used I think held 120, 160, or 180KB. Its been a few years. IBM had the 360KB drives. The first floppy drive I used was on a PET 2001. We had two in school. One with a full size keyboard. The other had a chicklet keyboard. Storage was on cassette tape. The floppy drive we had was loaned to us by the school board. To save a file took about a billion characters.

Same school used teletype printers using acoustic modems to the Honeywell mainframe. We saved our programs on paper tape. I still have a program somewhere on the tape. Not sure where I'll get a reader though.

I have locked up a stack of 8 inch floppies AND 80 column punch cards I found. I give them out to new hires and Coops. They look at the stuff in amazement. Also found a laser disk with code on it. THAT is even rarer.

The first hard drive I ever saw was 5MB and it was about 18-24 inches square and 6-8 inches thick. I am impatiently waiting for an 8GB SDHC chip to put in my MP3 player. Once the chip gets here the MP3 player will have 12GB of space. My Apple II+ had 8KB of memory and the PET 2001 had 4KB! The MP3 player with 12GB looks like its going to hold aournd 120+ CDs.

Amazing.

Oh, the subject was securing the tractor from theft......

Ah. Oh. Hmmm...... Ok. Right.

What I did was hide my tractor for four years in the woods. If they don't know its there they can't steel it or vandalize it. In case the tractor was found I would lock it up with Grade 70 transport chain around the axle. Twas not perfect but it was better than nothing.

I use my MP3 player on the tractor. And I have the tractor because I secured the tractor so well it was never stolen. The other computer talk helped me learn a trade which bought the tractor! See I kept the discussion wrapped together and on subject!

HA!

Later,
Dan

 

[wawajake]

To secure my tractor , I park it in the garage beside my ATV.
The ATV will get stolen first and is insured.
The tractor will be left behind to dig another day.

jake

 

[6string]

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[RWolf]

N7GVE since early 80's

 

[gemini5362]

I just read through this thread. Back to old computing things. For scale of hard drives. An early Univac shipboard computer system used a couple of Fastran disk drives. When mounted in a destroyer the gyroscopic effects of the spinning disks would interfere with the DD making turns. Now that was a disk drive. But the case they came in had guns.

How early are you talking about. The first Univac systems I saw used paper tape.

 

[David_Kb7uns]

Ok not to get too far off (like it hasn't yet) but how many hams on this board? Seams like there is a bunch that are also tractor owners, must be the tech skills that drive people to find a solution to get things done. On the tractor theft issues while not preventing it ,it would help track it down, have thought about installing an APRS tracking unit on the Kubota RTV 1100 that I have. Thought about an automotive type alarm system with ignition kill but the thibg is so easy to hotwire what would it be worth?

David Kb7uns

 

[Soundguy]

There have been plenty of messages about hams here.

DE Ke4rrd

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soundguy

 

[gemini5362]

There are a lot of hams on here that are not necessarily ham radio operators. Luckily they have day jobs and dont have to live off of their comedy routines.