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One improvement they did make with the firmware was remote polling, so at least you could force a station that was unattended to give its locstat. Prior to that it was up to the user to poll his or her location manually. Of course thats only as useful as the radio range and reception. We bought them as a team back a couple years ago and Morb and I were trying to run a CNC with them and at a certain point we just look at one another and put the damn things in our packs and went back to radios and landmark locstats. After that experience we never went back to them again and instead relied on pre-gridded and coded opmaps and calling RTOs for squad locations. Worked way better.
What is my dream? A dedicated GPS unit with a kickass radio and pollable and timed datastream slaved to a PC receiver showing Google Earth or Garmin Topo Canada and software that stickpins and tracks every registered unit. Datastream updates every 5 seconds. Now THAT would kick ass in a CNC.
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