GPS TRACKING LAB

I would say that this cannot be done by a DIY (Do It Yourself).

If yours has the knob to increase, and decrease sensitivity then you are good to go.

It is designed to "find" a signal from a distance. You will then turn the sensitivity down. This will allow you to get closer to the device. You will keep turning the sensitivity down in increments. This will allow you to get right up on the device's location.

Here is what we have to do!

Why are "they" targeting you.

My wife / husband / girlfriend / boyfriend put the device on.

Question: Did they buy it? How much do they earn, or where do they get their money?

Answer:

They earn $20,000, to $30,000. This tells me that they are not going to spend more then $600 at the most to get the info that they need.
(Each situation has to be individually evaluated). They are more apt to buy from a spy store, or from an online "spy store".

Solution:
Look under the car at the rear. You should find it in five seconds flat with a flashlight.

If they have access to an obcene amount of money then anything is possible based on how much they will spend.

Question:
Will they hire someone rather than install themselves?
I will at this time dismiss "techies" "the neighbor who is a cable guy", "ham radio operators", and "electronic engineers". I do so as they do not do this for a living, and they fall automatically in to the NOVICE range (although there may be one in 100 that can do it right).

A pro is too expensive for a $20K to $30K unless there is some serious cash, or child custody, or you are about to die when tracked.

Look at online spy shops, and look what they offer for live tracking devices.
Memorize what they look like. Look under your car, or under your seat. This is where 95% of the devices will be.

There are two types of devices. HISTORICAL, AND LIVE TRACKING.
Historical is not a threat. You will have to drive around for 3 to 5 days, and then they will have to remove the device, and hook it up to a USB on a computer, and download all of the waypoints. This will tell them where you have been in "past tense" terms.

Live tracking requires a cellular Sim card, and a third party activation. The third party receives the GPS coordinates and places this info on to a website. This person has to go to a computer, and enter their user name, and a password, and they can see a map with the "blue dot" where you are located, or they can enter a starting date / time group to a ending date / time group to see where you have traveled. It will also show other info such as miles per hour, and other info based on the account entry level, or premium level.

The account will charge a basic fee for x amount of "pings" from your GPS tracker. They will need the large account to receive a ping every three minutes to give live tracking. The cheaper account may only allow you to receive a ping every two hours before you run out of pings, and then pay a premium for each one.

PI will have premium accounts, and they get discounts because they will own more then one device.

To find the live tracker you will need to put the car in to a shipping container, and have it grounded. This will block all radio waves from the outside from getting inside the container.

You will set up three antennas and you will use a PC to track the freq, and do the radio direction finding.

In all honesty I find the devices under the car, or under the under the seat.
The under the seat is the wife / girlfriend / husband / boyfriend / friend / business partner / anyone who has a key.

Most devices have to run on batteries. Most will run on 4 AA batteries. Depending on how many pings you have it set for is based on how long the batteries will last.
Most should last about 3 weeks before the batteries die.

If they tie the device in to the vehicle power then you have a different case all together.

You will actually use a device that allows you to enter an FCC list. This list has all of the fast food restaraunt drive through transmitter freqs, local radio stations, contractor radios that are used to dispatch plumbers ect, and all other licensed transmitters. This list goes in to your machine, and it eliminates all of these known freqs from the sweep only leaving "unkown" freqs for you to look at.

I scope out the car in advance, and I buy the head rest at a junk yard, or from the dealer.

You insert the device in to the head rest, and open the car, and swap the head rest.

99% of the spy shops, and PI who think they do TSCM will not find it.

Do not forget that the car itself gives off RF, and you will get false positives.

If you are tying in to the vehicle power then most likely you are going to have alligator clips. One to the chassis, and the other to the starter to get straight to the battery. This is assuming no keys are involved, and this is a quick in, and out install.

If they have keys then they will install it in the trunk behind panels, or where there is a storage bin that they can open up.

They will use those kind of wire taps that you see at rental trailer ompanies where they tap in to your lights, and then the trailer has turn signals, and brake lights.

To hide devices under the carriage I will paint them with undercoating to make them black. Look for bumpers that are shaped like a J. In other words is there a well that you can drop the device in to so that you cannot see it? Use double stick tape to make it stay, or use zip strips.

Most PI's, and others will use the devices that snap in to a plastic case that has magnets.

If you are really looking for these devices then look for hollow places. Does your car have a cardboard glove compartment that can pull out?

SUVs, and Vans may have a center console that is hollow underneath, or under the center arm rest there may be a quick hollow spot to get to.

There is no device the size of your fingernail that will track you. The receiving device cannot be that small, and have a battery, and a transmitter.

If there is such a device on your car then it will not last very long due to the power source, and you are not in a high threat situation for the long term, but you can be found in the short time, but this will be an assasination attempt in this case.

Why are you the target?
Who is targeting you?
How much are they willing to spend?
Is this an amature situation, or a pro situation?
Do they have access to the vehicle?

I use several devices to protect others.
A: Paintball landmines. Place this around non concrete areas. If they trip one off they will be painted in color. If they walk down the street then they will be marked when you, or LE (law enforcement) approach them.

If you have some serious cash to hire a lawyer then go ahead, and use pepper spray in the land mine. If you cannot afford a night in jail, and the legal fees to get off then do not use the pepper spray.

B: Very expensive game cameras, and not the cheapos found at Walmart, and gun shops, and hunting shops.

You will need IR flash so that you do not give off a flash, and it has to be a digital camera, and you need a built in LCD screen to see the pictures.

The 35mm versions require you to develop the film, and you will have to wait for your evidence.

Place several game cameras around in the trees. If someone comes up from wounds, or walking though non fenced housing area then you should catch them.

C: Place True Day / Night cameras on the vehicle to catch vehicles that stop in the street at night to get out, and place a device, or to perform maintentance on the batteries.

Do you have one of the houses that has the "aluminum foil" in the attic? You can tell because you have to go outside to use your cellphone. Place your car in the garage, and shut the door. This will make it hard to get a GPS location, and / or prevent the cellular signal from getting out to give a location.

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MTK CHIPSET

■General
1. GPS technology: MTK GPS chipset
2. Frequency: L1,1575.42MHZ
3. C/A Code: 1.023MHZ chip rate
4. Channels: 32 channels all in view searching
5. Sensitivity: Batter than -159dBm

■Receiver Accuracy
1. Position: Without aid:3.0 M 2D-RMS
DGPS(WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, RTCM):2.5 M
2. Velocity: Without aid:0.1 M/sec
3. Time: 0.1 microsecond. Sync GPS time
■Datum
1. Datum: WGS84(Default) total 219 datum?
■Time to First Fix(Follow MTK chip specification)
1. Hot start: 1 sec average
2. Warm start: 33 sec average
3. Cold start: 36 sec average
4. Reacquisition: ＜1sec
■Protocol
1. GPS Output Data: NMEA0183(v3.1)- GGA,GLL,GSA,GSV,RMC,VTG
Support Baud rate 4800/9600/?/57600 bps
(default 4800), Data bit:8,Stop bit:1
2. Update Rata: 1Hz(default)
3. Protocol Support: NMEA-0183
■1PPS: Enable(1Hz pulse 10% duty cycle)
■Limitations
1. Acceleration Limit: ＜4G
2. Altitude Limit: ＜18000 meters
3. Velocity Limit: ＜515 M/sec
4. Jerk Limit: 20 M/sec3
■Power
1. Operation Current: Acquisition:65 mA@3.3V
2. Operation Current: Tracking:＜35mA@3.3V
3. DC Input Range: VCC 3.0~5.0V
VBAT 3.0~5.0V
■Processing Core
1.Processor Type: ARM7EJ-S
2. Processor Speeds: 48 MHz
3. Integrated program Flash: 4 MHz
4. Interface: CMOS 2.8 V Level
■Temperature
1. Operating Temperature: -40 to +85 .
2. Storage Temperature: -40 to +125 .
3. Operating Humidity: 5% to 95,No condensing
■Physical
1. Dimension: 25.4 * 25.4 * 3 mm.
2. Weight: 3g.

■General
1. GPS technology: MTK GPS chipset
2. Frequency: L1,1575.42MHZ
3. C/A Code: 1.023MHZ chip rate
4. Channels: 32 channels all in view searching
5. Sensitivity: Batter than -159dBm
■Receiver Accuracy
1. Position: Without aid:3.0 M 2D-RMS
DGPS(WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS, RTCM):2.5 M
2. Velocity: Without aid:0.1 M/sec
3. Time: 0.1 microsecond. Sync GPS time
■Datum
1. Datum: WGS84(Default) total 219 datum?
■Time to First Fix(Follow MTK chip specification)
1. Hot start: 1 sec average
2. Warm start: 33 sec average
3. Cold start: 36 sec average
4. Reacquisition: ＜1sec
■Protocol
1. GPS Output Data: NMEA0183(v3.1)- GGA,GLL,GSA,GSV,RMC,VTG
Support Baud rate 4800/9600/?/57600 bps
(default 4800), Data bit:8,Stop bit:1
2. Update Rata: 1Hz(default)
3. Protocol Support: NMEA-0183
■1PPS: Enable(1Hz pulse 10% duty cycle)
■Limitations
1. Acceleration Limit: ＜4G
2. Altitude Limit: ＜18000 meters
3. Velocity Limit: ＜515 M/sec
4. Jerk Limit: 20 M/sec3
■Power
1. Operation Current: Acquisition:65 mA @3.3V
2. Operation Current: Tracking:＜35mA@3.3V
3. DC Input Range: VCC 3.0~5.0V
VBAT 3.0~5.0V
■Processing Core
1.Processor Type: ARM7EJ-S
2. Processor Speeds: 48 MHz
3. Integrated program Flash: 4 MHz
4. Interface: CMOS 2.8 V Level
■Temperature
1. Operating Temperature: -40 to +85 .
2. Storage Temperature: -40 to +125 .
3. Operating Humidity: 5% to 95,No condensing
■Physical
1. Dimension: 12 * 12 * 2.05 mm.(W*D*H)
2. Weight: 1g.

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