Smart Phone GPS is forever
Just keep this in mind. When you have your smart phone with you everywhere you go is logged. Right now I don't think it'll affect the hobby. But potentially both legally and in civil cases the state it could show up. Just keep it in mind. They literally can Geo fence and get a list of everyone that was in a space at a given time. It would actually be very easy from a computing point of view to just find every time you were near someone else's phone. Divorce lawyers are going to love this.
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share[/URL]
That's why drop phones exist.
[QUOTE=WasAJones;4230870]Just keep this in mind. When you have your smart phone with you everywhere you go is logged.[/QUOTE]Flip phone (no GPS) from Walmart $25. Pay cash. Three month phone card from a different Walmart at a different time $20. Pay cash. Go to a place with public WiFi, preferably with no cameras (taprooms are my choice) and use a WiFi-only tablet to set it up with an out-of-state area code from a large city. Pay close attention while you're setting it up and there will be a tiny "skip this step" link at the bottom of the screen asking for personal information. Don't enter a fake name and address; that could be construed as a criminal act in a worst-case scenario involving alphabet soup agencies. Keep it turned off unless you're actively engaged in communicating. Always use the lock code feature and don't use the same code that's on your real phone. If you are unfortunate enough to have a wife keep it stashed in a diversion safe in the garage or basement As long as you're only in the realm of local boys in blue this will serve to minimize your exposure. Yes, they can use a stingray to track any cellular phone, but that level of investiture is rarely expended on solicitation operations. Leave your smart phone at home in airplane mode so it won't ring but will still register a location. Last but not least, be willing to drop it down the closest sewer grate when necessary.