Garmin Loosing All Collars Simultaneously

[Budd Denny]

I have 5 collars and twice now in the last week it has lost all collars at the same time and both times the dogs were within 50 feet or less? After shutting it off and on a few times it picks them all back up at the same time?

[Steve White]

Sounds like a broken antenna connector. With 2 fingers and no antenna on. Try to wiggle the connector. If it moves it most likely has been broke. Can try to tighten and see if you get lucky, but most of the time not. If in warranty then send it back. If not and know what you are doing. You can try to repair it yourself. Is only a simple solder connection.

[Budd Denny]

Steve, I tried wiggling it and never seen any movement, but I'm sure that's the issue. Whats the turnaround time on warranties, I'm running dogs almost every day and for some reason I can't get myself to turn a dog loose without the garmin on it .

[cat and bear]

Budd if I remember you got them from Buddy, exercise his loaner program

[Steve White]

Normally there is a 7 day turn around from the time they receive it. This does not include shipping time.

[Buddyw]

Budd, check to make sure the 220 has satelite signal.. if that looses signal it will make them all look like the lost signal..

Hope all is well. We were hunt all day caught one and trialed one the rest of the day. We are headed back up to camp wont be in service much this weekend.

[Budd Denny]

Have fun this weekend and give em hell Buddy, glad your getting the dogs out. I took the anntena off and reached in with pliers and tightened down the nut a little, don't know if that was it but I walked two miles on snowshoes today and the beagles covered 8 miles, never lost reception once so hopefully that was it.

[Steve White]

Got a feeling there may be more issues like this coming up, and there will be no problem with the equipment at all. We are seeing an increase in solar flare activity. Which will wreak havoc on all electronics. Has even been known to cause power blackouts. We are in the upswing of the most recent cycle. This one is predicted to be the worst in over 100yrs!! Most recently one of the largest flares in the last few years hit the earth.

Here is just one article on the recent activity.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/02/ ... for-earth/

[catdogs]

So does the Garmin warranty cover solar flare ups?

[Steve White]

Only if you are in Montana

Should not damage the unit. Only interfere with it. They have been known to mess with all satellites, including the GPS ones. Seen some video the other day on the Today show of what happens when a communication satellite gets hit. Was pretty impressive.

[Budd Denny]

I have not lost the dogs since I tightened that little nut and I use it ALMOST everyday so I'm hoping that's it, but once in awhile it does as Nolty's is, blinks out, also it freezes up as far as tracking north. Should I do the master reset on it and does this cause any internal damage to the unit at all?

[Steve White]

Master reset does not hurt anything.

[Bearkiller]

Master reset does not hurt anything.

You just lose your stored data like waypoints, ect....................

[Budd Denny]

After doing a master reset do you have to redo the upgrades????