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Leave the hunting to your dog.
Tired
of searching for your hunting dog in tall grass or dense cover? Now you
can leave the hunting entirely to him. Introducing Astro, the first
high sensitivity GPS-enabled dog tracking system for hunters and
sportsmen. This unique system pinpoints your dogs position and shows
you exactly where he is, even when you cant see or hear him.
Attach Collar and Go
The
Astro system includes a bright color-screen handheld GPS device and a
wireless transmitter, called the DC 20. To get started, just take Astro
outdoors and turn on the handheld and transmitter to acquire GPS
satellite signals. Then attach the DC 20 to your dog, either with the
included neoprene harness or by threading it onto an existing 1-inch
e-collar. Now youre ready to turn him loose no other setup required.
Track Dogs in Dense Cover
As
often as every five seconds, your dogs DC 20 transmits his position to
your handheld, and you can see his current location and a trail of
where hes been on the Map page of your handheld. Switch over to the Dog
Tracker page to view a compass pointing to your dogs location as well
as his current status: whether hes running, sitting, on point or
treeing quarry. Astro can also sound an alarm to let you know instantly
when your dog goes on point.
Astro boasts a high-sensitivity GPS
receiver that can track your dogs position even in the densest cover.
You can track up to ten dogs at one time with Astro, at a distance of
up to five miles away (depending on terrain). The system transmits
information by line-of-sight, so it reaches farthest in flat, open
territory.
Count Your Coveys
After youve
captured your quarry, mark the exact spot with Astros Covey Counter, a
special waypoint that tells you the exact location, time of day and
elevation where you found your prey, as well as the number of birds you
flushed and took from that location. Astro lets you save other special
waypoints, such as Truck and Lodge, so you can save the location of
these places quickly and easily for each hunt. Astro also offers
special waypoint icons to represent food plots, tree stands and other
hunting-related points.
Experience Full-featured GPS
Astro
shines when youre out on the hunt, but it also excels in getting you
back to your truck at the end of the day, or even back home again. In
fact, the Astro handheld has all the features of Garmins top-line
handheld outdoor devices, including a barometric altimeter, microSD
card slot, celestial information, area calculator, rugged, IPX7
waterproof exterior and a revolutionary 3-axis compass, which works no
matter how the handheld is oriented. With optional detailed city street
maps, you can search for over 6 million points of interest and create a
route on roads with exact turn-by-turn directions.
Astro: GPS-enabled dog tracking system
Dog Tracking GPS?
Garmin has done it again. Leading the industry in gps, they have come
up with a handheld device that will track your hunting dogs in the
field. It is called the Astro.
Whether it's tall grass or dense cover there is no more worrying about
where you are aiming, you get quick monitoring of your dogs position on
the ground so you can follow them around. All you do is attach the DC
20 wireless transmitter to your dog with the wireless transmitter, go
outside, and turn em loose. The GPS device also has a setting to alarm
you when the dog is pointing.
Using several transmitters you can
track up to ten dogs, and you can track them from as far as five miles
away (depending on conditions). The system works best in flat open
territory.
Using waypoints you can track where, when, and how many birds you found and took. The Astro
is not just a Tracking GPS, it is a full feature GPS that includes a :
barometric altimeter, microSD card slot, celestial information, area
calculator, IPX7 waterproof exterior and a revolutionary 3-axis
compass. You can also get the optional detailed city street maps with
over 6 million points of interest for the Astro.
GPS has come along way and now everyone is able to use it for almost every application. Take a look at the Astro Mini Site here for more info.
Peter Sagartz
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