Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System
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List Price: $599.99 Our Price: $486.00 You Save: $113.99 (19%)
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- GPS Receiver:
- Barometric Altimeter And Brand New 3-Axis Electronic Compass
- Scratch Resistant Lens On The 2.6-Inch Color Tft Display With Backlit Display & Keypad
- Resolution: 240 X 160 Pixels
- Weight: 6.4 Ounces Without Batteries
Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description The Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System lets hunters and sportsmen spend their time looking for game, rather than looking for their dog. This unique dog-tracking system pinpoints your dog's position and shows you exactly where he is, even when you can't see or hear him. This system includes a bright, color-screen handheld Astro 220 GPS device and a wireless transmitter, called the DC 20. Simple and easy to use, you just take the Astro outdoors and turn on both units to acquire a GPS satellite signal, then attach the DC 20 to your dog, either via the included neoprene harness or by threading it onto an existing 1-inch e-collar, and you're ready to go. 
The Astro system features a bright color-screen handheld GPS device and a wireless transmitter. View larger. | 
View the Astro minisite | 
Tired of searching for your hunting dog in tall grass or dense cover? The Astro is the answer. View larger. | The DC 20 transmits your dog's position to your handheld every five seconds, showing current location as well as where he's been on the Map page. The Dog Tracker page shows you a compass that points to your dog's location, and lets you see your dog's current status, such as running, sitting, on point or treeing quarry. The Garmin Astro can even sound an alarm to let you know instantly when your dog goes on point. The Astro 220's high-sensitivity GPS receiver can track your dog's position even in the densest cover, and lets you track up to 10 dogs at one time, up to five miles away in open territory. The Astro features a Covey Counter, which lets you place a special waypoint that tells you the exact location, time of day and elevation where you found your prey, as well as the number of birds flushed and taken from that location. The Astro also lets you save other important waypoints, such as Truck and Lodge, and choose special icons to represent food plots, tree stands and other hunting-related items. The full-featured Astro handheld has all the same functions as Garmin's top-line handheld outdoor devices, including a barometric altimeter, a microSD card slot for maps, celestial information and an area calculator, as well as optional detailed city street maps, over 6 million points of interest, and exact turn-by-turn directions. This unit has an extremely rugged construction, with an IPX7 waterproof exterior that can withstand full immersion in water up to 1-meter deep for up to 30 minutes, and a revolutionary 3-axis compass that works no matter how the handheld is oriented. 
Each dog's collar transmits his exact location to you. | 
A variety of bright and colorful icons and markers are available. | 
Check sun and moon cycles for your location. | 
Special waypoint icons to represent food plots, tree stands, and other hunting-related points. |
What's in the Box
Garmin Astro 220 handheld with VHF antenna and DC 20 wireless transmitter with VHF antenna, a neoprene harness, a collar attachment plate, a carrying case, a lithium-ion battery pack for the DC 20 transmitter, a vehicle power adapter and AC adapter for the DC 20 transmitter, a trip and waypoint manager CD, a USB cable, a wrist strap, a belt clip, an owner's manual and a quick reference guide.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
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Summary:
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Keeping track of Brittany
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Comment:
Purchased this product before heading to South Dakota for pheasant hunting. Helped me keep track of my dog's location and her activities even when I couldn't see her.
With all of the crops still standing in the field, a Brittany disappears quite quickly in 10 foot corn and sunflower fields. The unit worked well, always giving me a read on her. The only problem I had with the unit was that there is a 5 second delay between information updates, and that interval can be too long when the hunting is going at a fevered pitch. The product seems to be well made and well thought out. It does the job it says it does.
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Ok unit, but generally poor sat reception
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Comment:
This unit is ok at best, but I had two problems with it.
I don't exactly hunt the thickest spots or under the lowest tree branches, but I often still lose reception. When [...] hunting with my pups, they have seldom gone far before striking a track. Even when they were still within eyesight, they would frequently go in and out of range with the unit always saying poor satelite signal, then no signal. The trees weren't that thick. I hadn't gone into the really thick brush yet, but the unit would still lose reception constantly.
The second problem is with the distance tracking. I took my dogs on a leash walk around a known distance of 2.5 miles. While watching it as we walked the unit would update me every five seconds or so on the dog's location. While in the city with nothing overhead to block the signal, I never lost the dog's location, and the map showed fairly accurately where we had walked but the distance stated we had gone 12 miles! This is one feature I had really wanted to use to know how much excerize my dogs had gotten each night when we [...] hunt. However every night, just like when we walked in the city, it would show a ridiculous amount of miles covered in a short time frame.
On the positive side the mapping seems to be accurate enough to show where my dogs are, it's just that the distances are very much exaggerated. I still can find my dogs by going in the direction they show up on the unit, I just never have to walk as far as the unit indicates. This unit works ok, but the features I thought were going to work that didn't are enough for me now to usually leave the Astro at home when we go out.
Comment:
Before purchasing, I was concerned about the two-star reviews: broken transmitters and antennas, etc.
My dog is a lunatic, 30mph Wirehair Pointer who tears through the brush, fences, low hanging trees of the mountains of Central California at high speed. He is comfortable with the harness, and we have had zero problems.
The harness design is kind of clunky....but it works fine and I look forward to upgrades.
Meanwhile the GPS part of the system is very thorough and very versatile for the humans. All kinds of bells and whistles, very smart.
We are very, very happy with this device.
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Summary:
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An Effective Tool for the Bird Hunter
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Comment:
I am a bird hunter and this a very effective tool to find fast a dog pointing birds. It is also very usefull in finding your location and the location of the dog in difficult conditions (fog, thick forest, etc)
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DO NOT BE MISLED!
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Comment:
The rebate advertised for this product is NOT for this product, but rather for the update to the dog collar transmitter.
The rebate requires you to own both the DC20 dog collar AND the DC30 dog collar. You can purchase both if you wish, but if you buy only the handheld unit and the DC20, which is what this product listing is, you will NOT get the rebate.
Beware. Your price after rebate is NOT $349.99. It is still $399.99
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