Nick B
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jan 2019
Location: Memphis, TN
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I had one, but returned it
I returned it and got the Alpha. I had trouble with the Pathfinder taking forever to sync with my dog. It would eventually, but sometimes it was after I cast him, that always made me nervous, but I guess I was more impatient than nervous. I doubt your phone is waterproof, the Alpha recriver is. Also, having the large buttons on the Alpha made using the training functions very easy. There where a couple times I think the software glitched. Sometimes it would show me in a location I definitely was not. Another time I accidentally closed the app on my phone (not hard to do), that caused the current hunt history to be erased, including where I had marked my truck. I would sometimes have weird issues with the compass and dog direction indicator being wrong while sitting on the four wheeler, it would correct itself if I walked away from the four wheeler and waited a few minutes. But I don’t know if it was the four wheeler causing the problem because sometimes it worked perfectly while I was on the four wheeler. I contracted Dogtra about some of the issues, and was told someone would call me back. No one ever did.
Basically, the pathfinder did work for tracking my dog, and it is half the price, but I’m glad I returned it and spent the extra money for the Alpha.
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