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Originally Posted by Wheeze

Good points RF, but personal experience around those parts confirms b*gger-all mobile signal.

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But doesn't that mean you will also see b*gger all from the trackers?

No mate. GPS trackers use satellites not mobile phone masts. Just like yer garmin watch.

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Originally Posted by Wheeze

Erm, apologies folks
I am now going to go into competition with Always Injured and enter a MONSTER post.
Lots of words. Print 'em off and cogitate in the bath/on the bog/on the train...wherever you do your catch up reading....

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:D

Wheeze, I wish you every success with this venture. I really hope the tracking system works as planned because if it does this race will truly be a template for the future, both in technology and ethos.

Rejoice! The advent of the modern world needn't spoil our fun - we can still run traditional fell races as we always have.:)

(incidentally, what made you choose 1970 as the date of the advent of fell racing? Surely it started much earlier than that!)

Sorry, sloppy wording on my part. 1970 is of course the year of formation of the FRA.

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Originally Posted by Wheeze

No mate. GPS trackers use satellites not mobile phone masts. Just like yer garmin watch.

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But how do you get the data to know where people are? Or have I missed the point??

The trackers update their position to a webserver that the RO pays the supplier for access to during the event

Full details here: http://www.opentracking.co.uk/

Is the route out to Hay Bluff and back all on the Offa's Dyke path?

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Originally Posted by Wheeze

The trackers update their position to a webserver that the RO pays the supplier for access to during the event

Full details here: http://www.opentracking.co.uk/

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Yes but you need a mobile signal to upload the data onto the webserver thats why when following the trackers on BG rounds you get no updates at times, the data is stored on the tracker, only updating the server when its back in range

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Originally Posted by Fellhound

Is the route out to Hay Bluff and back all on the Offa's Dyke path?

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Yes, my l,ocal scouts have checked this and report that it suitable for a race route i.e. no significant obstruction issues.

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Originally Posted by Baggins

Yes but you need a mobile signal to upload the data onto the webserver thats why when following the trackers on BG rounds you get no updates at times, the data is stored on the tracker, only updating the server when its back in range

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Ah, I see your point. Hmmm. OK, well only a full test will tell. However, I'm encouraged by the comments of Sore Legs who has on the ground experience.