It's called Boomerang in Canada and I've heard their commercials. However, I don't know if the insurance discounts are more than standard alarm systems.

As far as I can tell, it depends on a variety of factors.

(A) The local police must be equipped with lojack recovery units (they can get the units free from LoJack corp from what I understand), but if they aren't equipped with them, it does no good. Check with your local detectives to find out if they have the equipment already in their inventory, and encourage them to get it if they don't. You'll note that their own webpages says as much ("It's the only stolen vehicle recovery system that works directly with the police using tracking computers in police cars, planes, and helicopters") -- meaning it doesn't use cellular networks or satellite networks to give full coverage on picking up the signal (they do use cellular networks to trigger the signal from what I gather).

(B) The signal, like all signals, deteriorates with distance, AND must be looked for. So, although Miami-Dade metro is well blanketed with LoJack recovery units among the cops (high theft area), it's fairly easy to take a stolen bike out into the glades (everglades) or into some of the rural areas of Florida 50 miles away and be safe while disassembling it. The distance of signal is a trade secret, but based on the power draw and reserve, I doubt it has more than a 25 mile range under optimal conditions and under 10 miles under most conditions.

(C) A faraday cage will prevent the signal from transmitting sucessfully until it can be disabled or runs out of juice. That means the type of vehicle used to steal the bike can play into the equation heavily (I would expect that a windowless Dodge Sprinter for example, with a solid metal partition between the front and rear sections should block it).

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

dont you guys wish that we didnt have to ask questions like these?

As some of you know, I used to a Installer/instructor of this and related equipment.

IMO, investing in a Lojack or similar system for general public antitheft protection is a total waste of money.

The OnStar GPS system is far superior. Likewise, recovery of stolen vehicles equiped with OnStar over Lojack is like 1000% greater.

Lojack RF tracking was created for the Law enforcement community, for the purposes of tracking predetermined targets.

Selling the system to the general public, was a way that the the manufacturer could recieve monetary benefits inorder to pay for further developement of GPS technology.

Remember RF technology is was used as early as the WW2. And little has changed since.

It can definately be expensive too.. having an audible alarm such as a scorpion would be just as needed as having one of the lojacks, IMO.

Best alarm I've seen is a Smity(Smith&Wesson)LOL