johnsonroy911
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I'm the fire chief of a fire department that recently had a break in during which one of our Motorola APX7000XE portable radios was stolen. Now I'm not the most educated guy on the topic of these radios, so please forgive if this is a dumb post or I ask a dumb question.
Since the radio was stolen the thieves have been keying it up on a local police frequency and causing general havoc. I'd like to get our $8000 radio back of course, but I'd also like to help catch these dirt bags. I called our radio service tech and asked him why we couldn't find the location by the built-in GPS? He said, "we never activated that feature." I then asked if there was any way to find their location using triangulation. Couldn't they at least narrow it down by seeing what repeater they're hitting? He said that wasn't likely to happen. He said the best we could hope for was waiting until they drained the battery and suddenly had no way to charge it.
I guess what I wanted to ask the experts here: Is there truly no easy way to locate stolen radios like this? I figured with today's technology they could be fairly easily located. Even with "old" technology like triangulation, I thought it would be a fairly quick matter to figure out where a radio was transmitting from.
Since the radio was stolen the thieves have been keying it up on a local police frequency and causing general havoc. I'd like to get our $8000 radio back of course, but I'd also like to help catch these dirt bags. I called our radio service tech and asked him why we couldn't find the location by the built-in GPS? He said, "we never activated that feature." I then asked if there was any way to find their location using triangulation. Couldn't they at least narrow it down by seeing what repeater they're hitting? He said that wasn't likely to happen. He said the best we could hope for was waiting until they drained the battery and suddenly had no way to charge it.
I guess what I wanted to ask the experts here: Is there truly no easy way to locate stolen radios like this? I figured with today's technology they could be fairly easily located. Even with "old" technology like triangulation, I thought it would be a fairly quick matter to figure out where a radio was transmitting from.