Often times deploying one base receiver with a highly mounted omni-directional antenna will provide adequate coverage for a RavTrack vehicle tracking station. . However, in some circumstances, especially as the area of operation increases in size, this is not sufficient to…
In a RavTrack system you will need antennas for vehicles, as well as base stations, and possibly repeaters if your particular system uses any repeaters. Here will will discuss common antennas for all three uses. The Raveon "GX" series of…
A popular type of antenna mount is called an "NMO" which stands for new Motorola. NMO mounts come in a variety of types and are frequently used especially when installing mobile antennas. Whether you are installing an antenna on a…
There are many ways to customize the map you use with your RavTrack PC vehicle tracking program. RavTrack PC uses any bitmap image, scanned map, jpeg photo, or geotiff file as the base-map to display vehicle location. Simply load your…
Your Raveon RavTrack PC GPS Tracking System can send "Rule Alert Messages" via email when triggered by a GPS tracking rule. GPS tracking Rules may be based upon vehicle speed, proximity, idle time, geo-fences, and many other conditions. When a rule alert…
The M7 transceiver has a 5-watt RF power output rating. In a typical application the units is in Standby or Receive mode most of the time. A small fraction of the time, it is transmitting. But when it transmits, the…
The M7 GX series of GPS transponders may be directly connected to a Lowrance Globalmap 540C or a Globalmap 840C navigation display. When connected, the Lowrance display map will show the location of the vehicle it is in PLUS the…
Internal to Raveon's M7 series of GPS transponders is a GPS receiver module made by Trimble. It is their Copernicus II GPS receiver module. Many of the M7's performance specifications are driven by the use of this receiver module. The Copernicus…
Raveon's M7-GX AVL transceiver uses a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) protocol to transmit position, status, and data over the air. TDMA protocols greatly increase the available channel bandwidth but they require more system planning than conventional carrier-sense methods. With a TDMA…
Creating and Finding Map Images All GPS Tracking software programs need some source of image files to overlay the position of the things being tracked. The Internet provides a rich source of map images, and this page identifies some of the better…