[OZAPRS] Fwd: Stolen Gear VK2XAG

[Shaun]

After an unfortunate incident where my tom tom met with the electric seat 
adjuster.  I obtained a new work issued Garmin. The first thing the tech told 
me was not to put my home address in it.  Apparently (possible urban myth to 
follow) theives steel GPSs from cars to get your home address.  i.e. If your 
home address is not where your car is, odds on you are not home and they go 
around and do your house over.

Luckily for me I have a park nearby and have set it as my home address.  So 
the GPS still makes the right calculations but the thief will only be able to 
knock off some park benches.

Shaun

On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 02:10:21 Joseph Burford wrote:
> > We are making the current location of our stations available to the whole
> > world.  We could also be advising people that we are not home - although
> > it wouldn't be at all wise for them to bank on it in my case.
> >
> > I understand that people have abandoned APRS for these reasons.
>
> Gowalla
> Foursquare
> Facebook Places
>
> A lot of people use various location check in type services and
> advertise their where abouts on a constant basis, it's not just hams.
>
> Linked a location based service such as APRS with theft of equipment
> is a long bow, IMHO.
>
> However we each have the choice of what we do :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joseph
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