No hitch locks or lockable wheel chocks in your area?
No thoughts abut making a custom hitch assy that does not fit any standard vehicle but yours?
A 3 1/2" trailer ball or a kingpin that is 1/4" dia larger than what will fit in any standard 5th wheel plate are not a standard sizes anyone carries around with them.
Can't pull what you can't hook up to or move is what I am saying.
But yea stuff like that doesn't take batteries, won't beep and you cant go online with your cell phone to look at where you left it when you get lost at the 5000 acre mega RV park and you're sure you are camping in section B Row A7 sub lot 512 when in fact you are in section A Row B7 sub lot 521 3/4's of a mile away.
Could you just hide a phone in the trailer and use a GPS tracking app such as this? Any time the phone came within range of a cell-phone mast you could get an alert plus location data.
With another phone.How do I receive the signal?
The hidden phone sends its GPS location data.How do I know the location of the stolen camper trailer?
NO ONE gets to the point! What is the range 2 miles, 50 miles 1000 mile?
No one gets the point because you're asking silly pointless questions
Trackers use GSM phone technology, essentially it's a GSM modem, a GPS module, and a processor connecting them together.
So 'range' is anywhere (in the world) a mobile phone works, and the module can get both phone signal and GPS signals - although if it loses GPS signal it will send the last position it had signal.
I've just bought one (to play with) from China - it cost £16 and a few pence.
You simply insert a SIM card in it, PAYG or Contract, then ring it - it hangs up and sends a txt back to the calling number, telling you it's location, actually embedded in a google maps link, so you can simply 'click' on the link and display it's location on google maps.
There are obvious drawbacks - for a start you need power, the supplied rechargeable batteries don't last a full day, although if you were going a walk you could turn it on when you go out, and recharge it when you get back. Better still, power it from the caravan battery - it has a 5V socket on the side. You also need the unit to be placed so it gets good reception, but that shouldn't be a problem in a caravan.
Your talking about things I don't understand. I have 2 old pay as you go phones one is 4 years old sim car expired and the other is 1 year old. So your saying I do not have to pay the $40 a month phone service fee just hide a phone in the camper trailer and give that phone a call. Seems like the phone will ring and no one will answer. Even if the phone does send me its GPS location I will need to leave the camp ground and drive 120 miles home to use my computer to check GPS location on Google map it will take 2 hours to get home. If I call my Son or someone else and they don't answer it never tells me there GPS location?
Seems like a whole lot of concern over very little rational chances of something happening.
Unless you own some high end highly sought after model I have doubts that thieves will take any time to try and defeat a good multi-layer hitch lock system and locked wheel chock combo while at any well-traveled campground. It's too time-consuming and too obvious.
They want hook and go convenience for something they can get money for. Torching or chop sawing hitch locks and locked wheel chocks takes time and makes a whole lot of obvious attention that they don't want.
If you want to make it difficult use hardened stainless steel for everything. It won't cut with a torch and it won't saw easily with a hand saw or cut bolt cutters either. The only quick way to cut it is with a powered abrasive saw or plasma torch and those make a whole lot of questionable noise when in use.
Put a sawed off trailer ball in the hitch then lock the hitch with a good quality lock then put a boot cover made of solid 1/4" stainless steel plate over all of that with a second good quality lock then do the same with custom made wheel chock sets that use both heavy stainless steel chain and cables that loop through each of the wheels that all terminate in a lock that fits into an inner lockable chamber inside the wheel chocks themselves.
With that you effectively have two sets of double layer security that has to be physically cut off before the trailer can be hooked up to and moved simply making your trailer not worth the effort and time to try and take.
Sure you don't get to play hero and throw some low life's in jail but to be honest even if you had a way of tracking your stolen trailer the odds sare the guys who took it won't get caught or if they did you will be old and dead before they ever make it far enough through court system to do you any satisfaction.
Video says it needs a sim card but does not tell where to get a sim card. Can I use a sim card from a phone? What if my phone sim card is expired? I got a new free sim card for my other phone it took so long to arrive it expired before I received it. Video says nothing about a fee for the tracker service. My wife bought me a better phone but I have no clue how to use it. I can answer a call but if I miss a call or text I have no clue how to find it. Phone has 2 pages of icons I think those r called aps on the phone but I don't know what they do. I don't know how to find the aps they come up by accident sometimes when I am trying to answer the phone. Seems like it will be a pain in the butt to swap and recharge batteries in the tracker every 6 hours for the rest of your life. What is the stolen camper is not found before the battery goes dead.
Perhaps you should find a different forum, as you appear to have little or zero knowledge about anything electronics related?
We're well in the 21st century, how can anyone not know how to get SIM cards? - over here you can get them easily on-line, in phone shops, or simply pick them up in supermarkets or various corner shops.
A SIM card wouldn't expire before you received it, as it's never been registered it can't 'expire' - did you follow the instructions that came with it?.
As for SIM card expiry, it's a bit tricky to find out exactly when it takes place - but it's certainly more than a month - you don't need to make calls, merely let the phone/modem connect to the phone network during that period. For my GSM projects I have it power up and send a txt once a month (exact time configurable via txt), this keeps the SIM active, and also let's you know it's still alive and working. Obviously for something that regularly sends data, you wouldn't need to do that.
As for battery life, as I suggested above, feed it from the caravan battery - but if you haven't found it within the battery life, then you're unlikely to ever find it at all. But as the GPS Tracker is accurate to within a few metres, and tells you exactly where it is - and also it's speed if it's moving, then there shouldn't be any problem easily finding it. It's unlikely the caravan would be continually moving during the life of the battery, so it shouldn't be a problem to find.
I checked into LoJack online it says nothing too. It does not even say if there is a month fee or how much the fee is. It says nothing about how it works, do I use a computer, do I need computer software, does it work on my phone, do I have to call someone to find out where the stolen item is located? I don't know if this is deceptive advertising or stupid advertising?
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