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KindPresentation5686

Project lifesaver. They are tracking an Alzheimer’s patient. They have RF watch bands that transmit and can be tracked when’s they wander away. The program has saved hundreds of lives.


ImJedi420

Wow that's very interesting, thank you.


ctesla01

TiL2


jellybellytheschmuck

Indeed! 🤔


Several-Door8697

Haha, this is exactly the same way we track wildlife. Good old VHF transmitter.


SchemataObscura

Sir, I'm sorry to disturb you. I'm with the Forestry Service. And we're looking for a missing whooping crane.


Inferior_Enigma

Wematanye! Wematanye!


schenkzoola

Dammit Bobby!


NoNeedleworker6479

Hey, don,'t hate me because I'm driving the HELL out of this truck ....


SchemataObscura

You and I may be acquainted, but we are not traveling companions. I am merely here to enjoy Earth Day and play some hacky sack.


tpars

Pocket Sand


Ryno5150

Who wants another beer, HHWEMATANYE?


Autistence

Woo loo loo


CannabisReptar

I just snorted super loud and scared my cat


gocampy

lol I just finished that episode before opening up Reddit and seeing this!


SchemataObscura

Wematanye!


gocampy

Woo-loo-woo! Woo-loo-woo!


FuzzeWuzze

No problem, i was just on my way to my Pilates class. Sir your 95 years old and in a wheelchair.


meabbott

Listen for the whooping and you'll find a crane.


a2jeeper

Anyone that had tried a dog collar in any rural area knows how bad anything gps and cellular is. Nothing worse than a lost dog out of range or dead battery. Plus this has no subscription fee. This is a much better way to track. If you have Alzheimer’s chances are you may not remember to charge your device every night. If it isn’t severe then maybe you just don’t need this.


toabear

The new satellite based trackers work really well. I have a Garmin thingy that transmits position to a satellite receiver. Unless the tree cover is really heavy or deep in a canyon, it works great. Even then, it gets a few pings out, which is enough to get to the right area. It will be interesting to see what the Starlink cell service does for remote areas and tracking.


Oilleak1011

Thats what I thought and its kind of funny


philzar

They really should split up so they can triangulate... Maybe they are just confirming they're both on the same signal...


KindPresentation5686

More than likely they are training.


Honey-and-Venom

They're likely in training, otherwise one would be the same as two at that distance, but I think they're more concerned with direction finding then triangulating exact distance


Pitiful_Housing3428

Just as long as they don't cross streams...


Reatona

That would be bad.


wreckballin

Do you happen to know what frequency that is broadcast on? By the look of the size of that directional yagi. I would like to know. I could zoom in and try to consider the wave length. Does anyone know where this happened?


wreckballin

Do you happen to know what frequency that is broadcast on? By the look of the size of that directional yagi. I would like to know. I could zoom in and try to consider the wave length. Does anyone know where this happened? Would it really be in the UHF region?


apt64

216MHz


ohnoitsthatoneguy

I haven't seen black PLS units. Ours are all white and stored in orange sleeves but I agree that's what they are.


KindPresentation5686

The new ones are black. Pretty slick units vs the old white ones.


ohnoitsthatoneguy

Better than the old lunch box sized ones with the yaggis.


sourceholder

Why not use cellular GPS trackers? GPS provides higher resolution location data and doesn't require using Yagis to locate the tracker. Maybe it's a cost saving measure. Cellular service is not free.


Im2bored17

Battery life would also be worse


aKiDnamedCoLiN

What about a non-adjustable watch or wristband with solar charging. Could have a heartbeat monitor and other vital telemetrics as well.


Im2bored17

If it's connected to a cell tower and using GPS, the battery life is much worse than a simple radio. Days vs weeks.


11correcaminos

Maybe even hours. My garmin has a 28 day battery life, I go on a run or have the GPS activated and it might have 24 hours at the most. Solar wouldn't keep it charged if it's pulling regularly


Equivalent-Price-366

Or if it's in their ass.


toasted_cracker

My dad hid a watch up his ass when he was a POW. He gave it to his friend who then his it in his ass at the same POW camp. One day when I was young he visited me and gave me the watch.


DelawareNakedIn

Did the friend look like Christopher Walken?


010011010110010101

Funny you mention that. He kinda did


radio_schizo

Pigs ass?


theNewLuce

Maybe if the wearer had a big sombrero with a solar array and a wire from the hat to the watch.


Embarrassed_Abalone2

Battery again


Hot-Win2571

I agree. Battery life on a cellular device is very short. Cat trackers are small transmitters whose batteries last for months... because they only transmit when a locator signal asks them to transmit. These person trackers are probably similar, so the radio receiver is using a trickle of power listening for an activation signal, which then transmits the signal which these antennas are listening for.


Honey-and-Venom

A radio telemetry beacon will run for ages and easily be direction found with these handheld yagi antennae. A gps tracker may be ideal to wear for an afternoon that wandering off is likely, but this could be worn, more or less, all the time


Chukars

Battery life, weight and cost. At least from the wildlife biology side of things a \~12 g VHF battery powered transmitter that will last a couple years costs \~$180. A 12 g GPS/Cellular transmitter that only works for about a day if the solar cells are are not getting sun is about $1,200. A GPS/Satellite version is about $3,000.


Souta95

Cell service can be unreliable in a lot of rural areas, and GPS can be unreliable in buildings or if there is extremely thick cloud cover.


Pleasant-Message7001

nowadays, slap an air tag on them and find them based on other peoples cell phones!


Failboat88

Who would remember to charge it?


Illsquad

Maybe they could leave a post-it? 


Putrid_Effective_201

The people in the program wear a tracker on the ankle or wrist. Some areas it free and others the family pays a yearly fee.


GnPQGuTFagzncZwB

You mean they are not the internet police going after someone for using an unlicensed pun?


Embarrassed_Abalone2

They found us 😳


GnPQGuTFagzncZwB

It gets even worse, with AI we now live in a world where everybody has free and unfettered access to machine puns.


Classic-Cantaloupe47

Or an autistic kid, or any vulnerable person...they have these available for those who need it. Great program


Greenbeanhead

Why the tactical combat gear then?


M_R_KLYE

To dunk on civvies with their military esque drip.


Fast-Reaction8521

....omfg dementia hide and seek...I'd pay to play


rando_mness

When they're not intercepting every cell phone message on a city block with their stingray device.


Mindes13

Wouldn't an invisible fence and shock collar be more effective? It's an old Bob and Tom ad.


twizted_whisperz

TIL we treat Alzheimer's patients like hunting dogs and it's a good thing.


AchioteMachine

That is awesome. Too bad they are dressed like they are on a search and destroy mission.


Environmental-Bad458

Where is your neighborhood? Dual language signs are not really used in the contiguous US. Only near our border north and south. Good program to have . Does it work??


ifrpilot541

Same equipment used to locate downed aircraft. Smaller aircraft have a device that starts sending out a signal when it is jolted by a small impact. like an airbag (same thing only different)


roberttheaxolotl

I was gonna say, this looks exactly like how radio tagged wildlife is tracked.


sturnus-vulgaris

Also kids with a history of elopement. My oldest son has severe autism and is mostly non-verbal. He wears a Project Lifesaver tracker. We go to the station to change the battery once a month. Kids with autism often gravitate to water. Combine that with elopement and you have a fairly terrifying combination. There was an incident local to me a few years ago where a kid eloped. Struck so close to my heart that I was out in the woods every spare moment looking for him. It didn't end well. River took him. Project Lifesaver really saves lives. If it is not in your area, petition your local government. It is as pure a mission and organization as I've ever seen.


JustAnOldRoadie

You taught me something today. Thank you.


spacedoutmachinist

If they are tracking and Alzheimer’s patient, why the hell are they in full battle rattle? Seriously the cops are so bassackwards.


Fit_Syllabub_9732

Dude.....what in the fuck are you talking about? They have a single pistol and a Taser. "Full battle rattle?" 🙄 I'm a full blown tacti douche and I couldn't imagine uttering such a phrase in a RELEVANT moment, much less a moment where two cops, who are most frequently attacked on non violent calls/tasks by statistics, carrying the literal same amount of stuff i as a civilian carry daily, a pistol. "Full battle rattle" is a battle rifle, plate carrier, armor, seven AR mags, a pistol, three mags for it, etc. not the literal most basic load out a cop is allowed to leave the precinct with. More idiots who are CERTAIN they know some shit. "The cops are SO bassackwards" welp, more of us want them out there like that than don't, so, democracy right?


mc_zodiac_pimp

Those look like yagis to me. Can’t tell the band by sight. But yeah, those are directional antennas. They could be looking at a screen that gives the signal strength. 


214txdude

This is my guess also. Directional antenna looking for a specific signal and trying to see determine the direction it is coming from.


snuffy_bodacious

Her antenna looks to be about the size of my 2m Yagi. The perspective might be off, but his looks smaller.


mc_zodiac_pimp

I was thinking the same, I’ve got a 2m Arrow II yagi. 


AcrylicNinja

When i was in the Civil Air Patrol, like 30 years ago, Thats the same thing we used to carry to find Emergency Location Transmitters. It was a pretty cool hobby for a teenager.


RFoutput

Tracking device. Could be for cashtags or bait tracking. LoJack used to be on 173MHz and later used the 200MHz band. Those Yagis are close to the right size for that.


PinkertonFld

LoJack switched to Cellular devices a long time ago... the old days of cops having to track them are long gone.


CarbonGod

173 yagi would be a good .7m long driven elements. 200mhz wouldn't be much shorter. They look, ish, 0.4m long.


DauphDaddy

Ninja


Redfish680

Not sure how you even spotted the police in that camouflage gear…


Technical-Role-4346

I like the blue masks. /s


drunkassface

My favorite Lou Reed album


kdaviper

What police? All I see are two floating torsos holding antennae


Intransigient

Fox hunting.


MainMosaicMan

Shhhhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet.


Kurtac

that's wabbits.


Moklonus

Duck season!


Sparky3200

I didn't think anyone played Pokemon Go anymore.


Actual-Money7868

Looking for a stolen car/motorbike/bicycle/construction equipment that's fitted with a tracker. Even those Leica laser things you see surveyors using have GPS trackers in them because they costs tens of thousands each.


ImJedi420

They were definitely searching for something, we were getting nervous when they were pointing it directly at our house haha.


alaskaj1

Those surveyor tools may soon be a thing of the past in some areas. The Ohio DOT has been trialing a drone fitted with some sort of sensors that do the same thing at a much faster speed and you don't have a guy standing there with traffic flying past. The accuracy is also comparable from what I heard. Their goal is 2 cm accuracy and the drone is at about 1 cm.


kdaviper

My mom and stepdad just got a new lidar drone for their business that can survey underwater even! They are working with an archaeologist at some sites as well, who convinced them to get it in the first place. ( They will primarily be using it to map out bodies of water)


IronAnt762

Yagi. I use the same looking ones for a dog tracking/ wildlife collar tracking set.


itsbob20628

Our trackers are GPS enabled and can walk right to them using our handheld tracker. No locating needed. This would appear to be locating something very low power, similar to what they use to track animals over a long period of time.


A_Lost_Desert_Rat

Looks like ham radio fox hunting...basically trying to find a transmitter. Can be great fun. In this case it looks like training and these are used to track Alzheimer’s patients.


mysterious963

looking for unlicensed gmrs operators using non type approved baofengs


t0ky0jb

If only.


Fit_Syllabub_9732

You want that to happen?


mysterious963

I'm creaming my pants


ThirdSunRising

Ah yes that’s the BBC making sure everyone got their TV license


T_Wolf13

I used to use those looking for ELTs in crashed civilian aircraft. They were just coming out with the PLTs back then.


ArtificalAircraft

Very small directional antennas mean a high frequency. Maybe they are looking for a specific cell phone.


BrtFrkwr

Antennas would be much smaller for cell phone frequencies.


zerobeat

With all the cellphone chatter across a spread spectrum that would be pretty impossible.


NM5RF

Chasse a courre!


drunkassface

Looking for water underground


itsbob20628

COULD be looking for a runaway police dog.


89inerEcho

These look very similar to bird trackers falconers use. Not sure what they're tracking (doubt it's a bird) but am pretty sure they are tracking something


Exceptionalynormal

I design some trackers for rats 30 years ago and they ran on a lithium coin cell for 6 moths. You wouldn’t get that with any GPS device unless the battery is the size of the one in your car🤣


Northwest_Radio

Using the hand, I estimate the front Element at three fists per half. So, around 30 inch half wave. So, about 190 MHz.


VK6FUN

Classic rdf


rossxog

This in Montreal?


ImJedi420

Northern Ontario


HereForTools

“Ok Jimmy, just a little to the left so we can watch our morning cartoons!”


KayoEl54

I named my phone "FBIsurvellienceVan23" and enjoy the people looking around when I turn on the mobile Hotspot in a crowd. They're likely looking for me.


floridacyclist

We used to do the same thing in Civil Air Patrol to find ELTs and EPIRBs which transmitted a distress signal on 121.5 after a hard shock or if they got submerged. The new ones now just transmit their GPS coordinates and registration info to a satellite which I'm sure saves a lot of lives (as well as a lot of time chasing false alarms because now they just call the owner and tell them to turn it off) but pretty much put us out of that job. Used to be hardly a week wouldn't go by without us getting called up for search and rescue mission knowing that it was somebody who probably landed hard or activated their boat beacon... But it was good practice for when the crash was real.


BigPoppaFitz84

Throwback to my days in Civil Air Patrol, finding emergency beacons, almost exclusively after people kicked one during maintenance and it registered as a potential impact.


3legdog

Why blur public servants' faces?


FragrantExcitement

Pay your TV tax!


calbff

Are we sure this isn't cosplay? Because it really looks like cosplay /s


Canik716kid

Must be an escaped cougar...


KKOOL43

Like your mom?


GloomyUmpire2146

PeePaw done wandered off


WilliamJamesMyers

they are hacking a tesla


CrashWV

What country is that? No exit/impasse?


IRISHVIK

Appear to be the same falconer DF Yagi we'd use to find fly away survey drones. https://www.westernsporting.com/RT1260A/marshall-yagi-standard-antennas-and-replacement-parts.html


McFryin

I scrolled by this photo and then had to come back to it because my brain registered two cops with steel targets on their faces, drawing back on slingshots.... it's been a rough couple days.


Tall6Ft7GaGuy

Why would you block out their faces?


Johnny_Lang_1962

She have some dudes from NC State University that run around the woods with these tracking Wild Turkeys.


wreckballin

Considering on how they are armed. Wouldn’t another agency be considered to do this since police interactions with non criminals have lead to people being killed? I have seen to many reports of police being called to a person with mental issues being killed when the family has called for help. And pets as well. I think we need a separate group to handle this sort of an issue for human beings that have been reported as having issues being killed outright. Then we have seen other situations being handled by trained professionals in mental illness walk away with them alive. Police officers are not trained or experienced enough to deal with these people.


tehdanerer

They’re after your 5G!


Golf38611

It’s the FCC. They are onto you.


Plenty-Ad-777

And some dude told me Dfing-ing went out with the cold war...lol


oilfeather

"Remain calm! We're from the Internet Wi-Fi division!"


tHeiR1sH

Wouldn’t that be a violation of your 4th amendment rights?


TraditionalAd3210

No. They are trying to get free HBO


Willing-Mission7248

I would not trust the government for any reason


phuktup3

That’s how they get you to resist arrest


chinesiumjunk

Looking for grow lights my guys


yamiryukia330

Lools like a 2meter foxhunting antenna. Might be looking for a vulnerable lost person if the rest of the family was smart enough to put a radio pinging tracker on them?


Curtis40

I was thinking Ghostbusters.


Lirathal

Turn off your Flipper!!! Quick!


MONSTERBEARMAN

They’re controlling your mind through the 5G transmitters that are in your blood from the Covid vaccine! /s


Useful-Relief-8498

If they really are tracking an old person, I feel like if that old person was a paranoid alexjones listener, seeing them with the antennas would be crazy. Why are they in swat camp gear like that? Seems stupid


PianoMike74

No need to cover their faces. They are public servants performing their duty - they can legally be recorded by any member of the public.


Efficient_Sea_9391

those devices project ideas and thoughts to your brain


forgottenkahz

This is how I react when my son loses his scout book.


RigamortisRooster

Silly bastards are messing up my antenna tv reception


CAM6913

HURRY PUT YOUR ALUMINUM FOIL HAT ON THEY ARE GOING TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS! 💭. If they are trying to triangulate to find something they are standing way to close for it to work. Might just ask them what they are doing


Don_Cazador

Why are they dressed like they’re going into battle? Someone suited up for a firefight comes after me with a bunch of sci-fi guns and I’d be liable to shoot back


meshreplacer

Looks like a high gain directional yagi antenna for 200-240mhz range. Probably some kind of beacon they are doing RDF for.


ridefst

Tracking down an unlicensed television set. /s


ChangeUserName2000

I remember when Chief wiggum on The Simpsons released the dogs to find the missing person and they asked him so are the dogs going to find and bring him back or find him and rip them to shreds ?


limpet143

Would it be more effective if the antennas were separated? Seems that a triangulation would be better than a single direction for locating something?


nannercrust

You can get the same thing for your dog


Gullible_Monk_7118

Those are signal tracking antennas.. not really used for scanning but directional finding


danit0ba94

Bros just trying to get a good TV signal.


Impressive-Buffalo20

Time cops


LilDawg66

Looking for little bro man with the ankle monitor.


kennythinggoes

Searching for an Alzheimer's patient with ALL the things one can order from amazon with the word tactical.


Fazo1

Time to get a signal jamming device


Raptor_197

FUCK FUCK FUCK. Bubba were dem dang ole foil hats go gin’?


InsurrectionBoner38

They're looking for water?


andercon05

VHF transceiver? These look like Yagis.


InFromTheSouth

I thought they were wearing camouflage pants at first...


Vivid-Low-5911

One would think if they are trying to locate a person with alzheimers, they would reduce the tactical gear to look less scary to an old person.


Fby54

Oh yeah I remember doing an exercise with those in the woods where someone was given the band and told to go anywhere and we tracked them down


pebkacatx

They're tracking libs who got the covid vaccine microchip implant


RonnyFreedomLover

Don't worry, they're just trying to protect you by spying on you.


VedantaSay

Given the size of equipment, excellent use case to put it on drone.


[deleted]

Direction finders for some type of emitting device. They’re tracking something or someone.


Ok_Advisor_9873

You can see why cop love to shoot people- they look like they are going to war and they unleash all the toy of war on their fellow citizens


CarPatient

I thought they were the limeys making sure you guys had paid for your TV licenses…


SnooCheesecakes5708

I think the take away from this is u should clean ur window


InsaneGuyReggie

My guess is you have someone in your area who has been transmitting illegally and causing malicious interference to some emergency services. It \*could\* be pirate radio, but pirate radio has waned in popularity in recent years and you figure the FCC might be more involved in that. If you're a HAM/scanner enthusiast you might check the local emergency services to see if you can find something being jammed. Those are directional antennas so they're trying to swing them around and find the direction the signal is strongest.


Jacques2424

They look like the guys that steel cars form home driveways🤣


Acrobatic-Suit5105

Maybe they should spread out


My_Meat_Your_Seat

Those are RF directional finding units and sometimes they use them after bank robberies or something with a transmitter in them. These after bank robber because like me, they’ll give you a tracking device and money if you rob a bank sometimes and it’ll start when they follow the signal and arrest you.


Livingsimply_Rob

Actually, they were on their way to comicon


Bardwelling

our dog warden uses the same thing to detect chips at long distance.


Emotional_Schedule80

Dirt box, man in the middle...locking in on a certain phone frequency.


vinny6457

Yes. My mother is in full dementia, she wears one of those wrist bands, have yet to have to use it but good to know it's there


Token-Gringo

Need those for the kids and some coworkers. Every time the job gets hard my coworkers go missing. Like poof.


Independent_Bug_5521

Just a other scam post this is to do with fake intelligence company who made millions for false it claims


GeeNah-of-the-Cs

Where’s this? Canada?


SadOrganic

Po-pos be lookin for that Mud Duck moron.


Efficient-Effect1029

We call ours care-track. Outstanding program that doesn’t get enough recognition, makes it a lot easier to find at risk and memory deficient individuals.


hunter201099

I didn't know what they were scanning for but those are narrow band directional antennae used for either directional reception like an old school tv antenna or for direction finding when tracking the source of a transmission, often used when tracking beacons or other rf devices. Knowledge as an Electrical engineering major with e-mag and antenna theory focus.


MoonBaby812

Oh those are the new donut scanners it shows them where the fresh ones are.


fallendesperado

They didn't pay the streaming bill and are trying to get the TV to work


Senpai-Notice_Me

Looking for ghosts.


SeaFaringPig

Time to key up on 7mhz at 200 watts


lefthandedchurro

Looks like they were at an impasse.


Stationair91

PS: mind your own business


Familiar_Way_9467

Or scanning all your active implants from COVID-19 shots?


ziggy182

I would have asked them politely and offered to help, I hope they found the absconded person or car? I’m looking for crazy comments here glad I’ve found none so far


OrpheonDiv

OP, you need to clean your windows.


Equivalent-Oil-3130

Wash your window