Buckshot
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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: ALABAMA
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Seen a review on another site from someone who has tried this system:
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All right, tried out the tinyloc system with the 25 day free trial thing. I was hunting for bear and what can I say. It looks “chinese” and ugly as a brick (actually a brick is nicer than the receiver).But what made me try this system is basically because I HATE the range with garmin like a lot of other people do.
The maximum range I got with the Tinyloc GPS was 9.1 miles. That’s pretty good I think (never got up to 13.4 like the add says). With radio tracking mode I got up to 19 miles before the “pip” gave up. In our forests, that’s not bad.
They do not have a topographical map built in to the receiver, but I could connect my receiver to a hand held laptop and see where my dogs where on a topo map that was more than satisfying. A bit uncomfortable to carry a laptop with you when hunting but if someone wants to do so then it is possible. But I must admit, I missed having the topo map in the receiver to see where my dogs were.
To summarize, the improvement in range alone makes this system more usable for me. What good is a topo map if garmin loses the GPS connection all the F’’’ING time? The combination between GPS and radio tracking works nicely and can’t complain about the battery life either.
+: GPS range
GPS and Radio tracking in one
Simple to use
Battery life up to 7 days
-: To expensive
No Mac version of the software "Dog Stat"
No topo map built in the receiver
Ugly
Check out their website http://www.tinyloc.com and look at the videos under "tutorial". They explain some stuff that could be interesting to know before making the decision to purchase one.
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