another garmin question...

[brian j cerelli]

i know other people probable have this same problem, it seems that i get interference with othere collars all the time, my hunting partners all have 5-8 dogs and i track my 5 on my garmin, and 1 or 2 of there "better" dogs, we have gone threw the id #'s and none of them are the same, and when ever one interfers with one of mine, the id #'s are not even around the same #. and its not just my 220, theres do it too. i dont really care that they interfer, it just a pain in the a** that it pops up on your screen ever 5 seconds asking if you want to track a differnt dog, and then you have to press no, and then it asks if you want to keep tracking your dog, and then you press yes. i guess my question is , does anyone else have this problem alot, if you do, is there a way to turn off this interference with other collars, i just want to track the 10 dogs that are on the list. not overwrite them with someone else dog while im in the middle of running game.

any info would be great.
Thanks.

[ferjr]

i have had the same problem, it is annoying when you are trying to watch a race. mine doesnt seem to do it for very long though, i just keep hitting no i dont want to change ids and yes i want it to keep tracking that dog. it seems to quit after a few times.

[eROKv]

if you haven't updated the software on your astro in awhile, that may help. one of the recent patch notes mentioned something about improving the way the astro handles interference between collars.

we have learned to deal with this problem by keeping track of the ID numbers of each dog and then turning off tracking on the ones you don't need to follow at the moment. you can even remove them entirely from your dog list, so long as you remember the ID number they had last. it only takes a few seconds to add them back in when you need to find them again.

i started the season last week with a clean astro, and only added the collar ID's in as the dogs left the truck. after a few chases, certain dogs seem to always be at the front, so those stay in.

[brian j cerelli]

thanks , i will have to try to update it and see if that helps, i wish you could just turn that off!!!!!

[dereel208]

From what I understand when trying to keep numbers apart, the first number doesn't mean anything. so if u have one with 17 and another with 57, they will interfer with each other. so just make sure all your last numbers are different. A guy just showed me that and it seems to work pretty good.

Hope this helps
Dan

[brian j cerelli]

thanks i will check the last # on the id's. i never thought of that! lol

[walkerhunter01]

I have heard about the last number as well but seems that it is not the case.

The Astro series Communication Settings and their frequencies are:

* Communication Settings 0 – 9 (151.820 MHz)
* Communication Settings 10 – 19 (151.880 MHz)
* Communication Settings 20 – 29 (151.940 MHz)
* Communication Settings 30 – 39 (154.570 MHz)
* Communication Settings 40 – 49 (154.600 MHz)

If you experience interference, the Astro will typically prompt you to change your Communication Setting on your collar. Most urban areas utilize the 154 MHz frequencies so you may want to select a lower Communication Setting in these environments.
(http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/u ... rchsupport)


I got that off the Garmin website. They recommend that the collers be at least 5-10 numbers apart. I know that is hard to do with a lot of dogs but that is what they say.

I hope this may help