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Garmin ASTRO BUNDLE DC 30 Collar Plus Astro 220. Tired of searching for your hunting dog in tall grass or dense cover? Now you can leave the hunting entirely to him. Introducing Astro, the first high sensitivity GPS enabled dog tracking system for hunters and sportsmen. This unique system pinpoints your dogs position and shows you exactly where he is, even when you cant see or hear him. The Astro system includes a bright color screen handheld GPS device and the rugged, all weather DC 30 collar. The collar has an integrated GPS transmitter and is specially weighted so the antenna will always point to the sky for optimum signal. To get started, just take Astro outdoors and turn on the handheld and transmitter to acquire GPS satellite signals. Then attach the DC 30 to your dog. Now you are ready to turn him loose / no other setup required. As often as every five seconds, your dogs DC 30 transmits his position to your handheld, and you can see his current location and a trail of where he is been on the Map page of your handheld. Switch over to the Dog Tracker page to view a compass pointing to your dogs location as well as his current status: whether he is running, sitting, on point or treeing quarry. Astro can also sound an alarm to let you know instantly when your dog goes on point. Astro boasts a high sensitivity GPS receiver that can track your dogs position even in the densest cover. You can track up to ten dogs at one time with Astro, at a distance of up to seven miles away /depending on terrain/. The system transmits information by line of sight, so it reaches farthest in flat, open territory.
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- Bundle Includes: Astro(Tm) 220 Dog Tracking GPS Receiver, Dc 30 Transmitter Collar, Carrying Case, Ac Adapter, Vehicle Power Cable, Usb Cable- See Current Location and a Trail of Where Your Dog Been on the Map Page of Your Handheld
- Search for Over 6 Million Points of Interest
- Create a Route on Roads with Exact Turn by Turn Directions
- Astro 220 Handheld/ DC 30 Wireless Transmitter Collar/ Carrying Case/ AC Adapter for DC 30/ Vehicle Power Cable for DC 30/ MapSource Trip and Waypoint
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By Rebecca Stachewicz (Marquette, MI)
My husband returned his Astro after running it on our dogs a couple of times. The screen on the handheld is not up to par as far as Garmin goes. The colors aren't as deep as other GPS units and its not as easy to read. It also got condensation inside the screen. He also didn't like that 5-7 second lag time that it has. Dogs can go far in 5 seconds, and we don't want to know where he was 5 seconds ago, we want to know where he is now! This isn't conducive to people who also run beeper collars. Who wants their dog wearing three collars at a time? It gets kind of cumbersome. Garmin is onto something with this product, but we don't feel like they are quite there yet for bird dogs (unless you lose dogs in the woods). Can see why people who run bear dogs would like it though.
By J. Schockett
Nowadays when you can see your mailbox from space on google earth, basic cell phones have gps and mp3 players and you can buy 16gb usb flash drives for less than the cost of a tank of gas, technology products come with high expectations, especially ones with $500 price tags. The Garmin Astro meets expectations, but stops there rather abruptly. Okay, that may be a bit critical. The technology is pretty amazing. When you first get it out of the box, work through the quick start guide, and put it on your dog, it is impressive. Once our Schipperke, Lucy, was more than about 15 yards away the handheld unit clearly and accurately showed her position on a simple color map and the dog tracker pointed at her approximate location while correctly tracking her distance. My wife walked across our neighborhood with Lucy and from our home, I could easily follow their entire walk(500 yards away). But the glow wore off quickly. When you start to examine the features of the device, you'll realize that there isn't much more too it. Outside of the one (admittedly cool) feature, the GPS is basically a run of the mill GPS from 5 or 10 years ago. The included map shows highways, but not surface roads (it costs another $100 to download detailed maps). It has a compass, a barometric altimeter and some gps games that I'll probably never play. The collar (despite being an improvement from previous versions) is also a bit big and bulky for a small dog, though seeing Lucy run with that antenna sticking up fromm her collar is awful cute. In total, we love being able to let Lucy run free in the forest without those moments of panic when we don't know where she is, so I'm glad I own the Garmin Astro. I was on the fence between 3 and 4 stars and price pushed me to 3. At $500, I'm still not sure it's worth it. Fundamentally, this is a GPS unit that communicates with another GPS unit via radio. I can't see any reason why this shouldn't be half the price. Give it two years and I anticipate that it will be. For now, this appears to be among the best gps dog trackers available, but that it isn't saying very much.
By Olaf
This is a great unit. Sensitive and invaluable for a big running dog or in the grouse woods. Well made and the collar is hands down better than the previous one. I gave it a 4 instead of a 5 because it would be nice to have the option to have it update more often than once every 5 seconds. For most dogs it is likely not an issue but for the big running, hard charging dogs they can be in a totally different place in 5 seconds.
By S. Marcum (WV)
I love my tracking system, but where I am not a computer or technology kind of person, I had to play with it for a while to figure things out. But, once you learn it, wow! I would really recommend it to anyone.
By Paul Dobrovolskis (Ancaster, Canada)
The updated version of the previous 220/DC20 combo improved the transmitter unit making it hang better and more durable than it's predecesor. The unit is rugged and durable and seems to handle rough use well. The range is very dicey. On flat terrain easily got one mile but in hilly country or thick forest this dropped considerably.
The GPS220 is the weak link in this system. It is an average GPS unit, good for a monopurpose unit. Maps are good but if I want to use My RINO series GPS/Radio and have my GPS in my car and need to put an e-collar on my dog, it's a lot to lug around. The dogs collar does not accomodate a e-collar reciever and the GPS transmiter without getting too bulky. The 220 does not have communication ability nor does it do text to voice driving directions hence, is not useful as a standalone GPS unit in a car So If you want a high end GPS for your car you will need a second unit. I would hope garmin would have built this in and then this would be a truly universal unit. But why not make it a RINO unit as well, one less thing to carry in the field.I actually hope garmin teams up with Tritronics or Dogtra and builds a e-collar/GPS Locator.
If you want to just locate a dog and have a rudimentary GPS this is a good unit.
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