I have now had time to watch all the links you provided, Bruce, and I am not much further forward. Not too impressed by the Marco Polo vids, especially as both were in relatively open country, although as one commenter pointed out, the man was holding it at the wrong angle.
Yours looks more business like but in both cases way cheaper bought from the US, with all the uncertainty about final cost re VAT, customs and handling charges etc.
The Marco Polo can be bought from Amazon France with no delivery or of course import charges, but it is more expensive.
I really would like one, given all that has happened and, although I can see a use for it with Jules, allowing him to be offlead again outside of the garden, there seems to be a question mark as to whether Harper will be returning here, rumour has it otherwise, but nobody is talking at the moment.
Time to talk to the Chasse I think. But the problem remains, can I justify the cost?
Almost certainly just for cats, no mention of dogs at all, not even small cat size ones. I wonder why. I don’t think that dogs get into any more scrapes than cats.
But once again, GPS, less accurate in any areas that interfere with satellite signals. I know that from the losses of signals to my satnav from trees and high buildings.
Did you read it all Steve? Any clue given as to how they get round that point?
@David_Spardo@JaneJones he seems confident - uses radio as a backup where GPS doesn’t work - but, reading it again, it’s just for cats and - from watching La Vie Secrete des Chats (guilty pleasure) - you’re quite right, Jane, even though my cat seems to be content in a small suburban garden
I’ve used my USA cat tracker for 15 years or so now, but it’s starting to be a bit unreliable. Its electronics have become sensitive to humidity, and I have to take it apart too often to air it out under an Anglepoise lamp.
Can’t buy it or the collars anew because they are out of production now.
Just wondering if anyone has used Tabcat V2 radio tracker, which I intend to buy.
With my old USA rf tracker I could trace my cats up to 1 kilometre away in hill & dale countryside, further on flat terrain. If I had dogs, I’d probably use gps coupled with an rf tracker. But I found that my cats never strayed very far.
On one occasion a cat did stray too far, but driving in ever larger circles in the car, I soon picked up a signal.
This new Tabcat rf tracker, at its best, can only reach up to 500 feet max, but my 4 remaining cats are getting old, and well within 500 feet!
Both rf trackers are good at pinpointing lost expensive collars in deep grass.
Have you tried using bluetooth in a forest kms from anywhere? Apart from super expensive hunters’ systems we’ve yet to find anything reliable for our dog.
Yes I get that the airtags triangulate between users, a sort of mesh system, just wondered if they would work. Seen several other collar tags that take a sim card for transmitting the GPS signal.
