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Caravan tracker device


Does anyone use/using a Mobile tracker device in their caravan/car to know if it has been moved without you knowing?
One of those device with a GPS, that send you txt about it movement.
If so which one, and do you recommend it?

 

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We leave our Traveller Tandem Caravan in the bush unattended and have an MT600 Plus au GPS Tracker, connected via an RF switch to a mobile phone aerial on top of our Wingard TV aerial. At the time ( maybe 3 years ago) I though that as well as 3G, this unit had the most 4G frequencies available so maybe a bit of future proofing.

Just set the tracker up in the Geo Fence mode, thought about getting SMS message sent via the Tracker via a movement detector but have not done anything about it.

I can switch the aerial to a Telstra phone/Telstra Modem.. laptop/Tablet when in the caravan. Depending upon the location ( Telstra signal strength) the tracker still operates with the aerial flat above the van roof.

www.mictrack.com/downloads/user-manual/4g-gps-tracker/MT600_Plus_User_Manual_V1.0.pdf

I also have a wheel lock on each side of the van, one wheel only ( carried on the 2 spares on the back bumper)and of course the tow ball lock, as well as good insurance cover but which will not cover us for the additional gear, I have added to the van or the price increases that have happened to this model since our purchase, along with the Agreed Value Insurance of the Caravan diminishing over the years.



-- Edited by PeterInSa on Monday 21st of September 2020 08:15:48 PM



-- Edited by PeterInSa on Monday 21st of September 2020 08:16:56 PM

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Thank you PeterInSa, That manual will take a bit of working out, but that unit looks like it does it all.
Looking on eBay, it is in the high price bracket. but it looks like it could do more the the cheaper ones.

Peter do you think you would buy that again?

It was also good to hear about your other van gear, I like how you storage your wheel locks.

A lot of the time I don't like leave my car in the bush, when going got a bush walk, a van is even worse on the mind.

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I would buy it again but after another review on what is available. Most cheaper units do not have an external connection so to me only good near cities/towns, I also question their access to the various signal frequencies/bands you can see on the above that the MT600 Plus au can receive more frequency bands that the MT600 Plus ??.

Some use an old Smartphone with a Telstra sim card and if their car goes missing just run the App "Find my Phone" on your phone, if in a Telstra signal area.

Note my wheel locks have 2 safety feature that I have added to secure them so that they do not come apart during travel, without these I would not carry them on the spare tyres.

Up to 3 years ago we went bush with 2 couples with older vans, so if one was going to be stolen, it would probably be ours, mate we now go with has a more modern Traveller Caravan than ours.

Don't know that I would bother with a tracker on a Car/4x4 unless you have added a lot of gear and not covered by reasonable insurance.

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