Bruce M. Conkey
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Larry I am using one. Seems to track ok. I still have some problems with their mapping. The maps are detailed but what you can do from one page on the Garmin you have to go to two different pages on the SPORTDOG to accomplish.
My complaint on the page that you are tracking from is you have to zoom out on the pages as the dog leaves you and that means if your dog is over a half mile away the track is not detailed enough for me. I want to see if they are hitting different trees and working uncovered tracks.
In other words the entire page zooms in and out with your location in the center, I want to be able to go to the dog and zoom in on what he is doing.
Second thing is from the map page that you can scroll the curser out and zoom in, works fine with one exception. The scale on the map is not small enough to zoom out and see much distance in front of you without loosing detail.
In other words as with most maps as you zoom out the smaller roads go away. Thing is when I am on the page and I need to see how to cross a creek say a mile in front of me, as I zoom out to see where that road that crosses might be the road leaves the screen.
If they had the same mapping configuration that Garmin does I think it would be a serious contender.
The knob on the handheld that controls about everything is suspect to me also. It is going to take a lot of use and pressure from the fingers and I hope it can stand up to it.
I have only used this about two weeks and some of my thoughts may be to my inexperience with the system. I have been on the phone with one of their Techs who confirmed that what I was seeing is correct as far as mapping is concerned. The Tech was excellent to work with and actually he has helped me out several times over the years with customers shocking system questions.
I had it and a Garmin and the Sportdog on a dog last week and I had to do some manual correction to the dog. When I grabbed the dog by the collar I hit the button on the Garmin and turned it off and about the same time I hit the wrong button on the sport dog handheld and wasn't tracking my dog on it either. Now I had $1600 in tracking equipment on a dog that was gone once I finshed my manual correction and no way to track it. Operator error and frustration is a coonhunters biggest downfall most of the time.
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