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I just bought a Garmin Astro last weekend and I got to try it out today, I'm more than a little disappointed in the unit. 1 collar reads better than the other it at least shows the right direction but the distance is off when the dog is 10 feet away the collar reads anywhere from Near to 18 yds away The other collar is reading the wrong distance and direction


I have removed and retaught each of these collars twice thinking I may have messed up but it made no improvement. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? As it sits now my old Tracker Maxima Complete has it all day long over this Garmin GPS tracking unit

http://www8.garmin.com/products/webupdater/

Run the Garmin webupdater. That should put the most recent updates on the Unit and you'll need to update collars also. Should correct it.

I just ran the Webupdater for the unit and each of the collars. I'll see what it does tomorrow, I hope it takes care of it.

another thing
when they are right next to you and it shows 18
it might have just not udated yet
ive had mine about 6 months and you will have to tweek with them all the time
but you can keep them right
i know if mine blows up tommorw theyve saved me a ton of money allready and have paid for there self

wildcatfan0309 wrote:another thing
when they are right next to you and it shows 18
it might have just not udated yet
ive had mine about 6 months and you will have to tweek with them all the time
but you can keep them right
i know if mine blows up tommorw theyve saved me a ton of money allready and have paid for there self

What do you mean by tweek with them all the time? If I have to mess around with these things all the time or can't rely on them to be right I'll just keep using my Tracker Maxima Complete with Supra-lite collars, it only let me down once when a collar battery was defective and flat out died with less than 10 hrs on it

i never had a problem with mine with the dc30;s anyhow .. the 20;s were ok but the 30;s are great . i never seen any tracking system i would trade for!

had mine for almost a year now Astro 220 with 2 DC30s with NO PROBLEMS at all...Make sure you are calibrating the compas dont skip that step or try to hurry it and it should set up...I use mine all the time and only have had to reset it ONCE took about 3 min and painless..I never have to TWEAK mine....

how much are additional transmitters ?

ohlinger wrote:how much are additional transmitters ?

i found this place.seem to be a good price
http://www.erwincomputers.com/0100059601.html

I think I may have found my problem I checked for updates again but had the most recent version in my receiver and collars so I went outside to try them out. Same thing it was giving me the wrong direction so I deleted both of the collars again and added them back in, everything was good to go. Initially when I set everything up I did it in my Lazyboy recliner in the house I think that although the unit said it had a satellite lock with everything it's possible that it wasn't the best signal. Now when both collars report a distance within 1 yard of each other and the correct direction. I'll know for sure when I test them in the woods this weekend, I'm just going to make sure they have the Tracker collars on too, a little insurance policy never hurts.

In the directions, it should say that if the dogs are under 10 feet from you, the GPS will give you an accurate direction, but a wrong distance. I don't know why this is, but that is how mine works. Other then that, I think it is probally one of the best investments I have made. No problems, and it has saved me a lot of worrying.

I've had mine over a year now I had one collar that kept turning it self off I called garmin and sent it back to them and had a brand new one at house with in a week

try calibtrating your compass on a regular basis, seems to help.

We used the Garmin tracking system on our Hare trip this year. Loved it!!!!

I've owned Wildlife , Tracker and Icom in the past. The Garmin made the other systems look like a toy. JMO

DIXIEDOG I know this may Sound Stupid BUT did you Fully Charge your Collars before setting it up?????