EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

how many people runnin the newer collars with the shocker and tracker in one unit? Hows everyone liking them?

My buddy should be a garmin sales man because he's about got me sold on em he loves the alpha and the TT 15's.

My friend has the system he loves it but it's a little high teck for me


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Hi tech because they have to be programmed? or the way you interact with the handheld?
They are definitely hi priced, but Im about to get two new old style collars and I just bought two e collars, so Ive been thinking if Im going to switch to the newer system I should do it now  before I get even further invested in this older equipment. Im concerned that they still have some kinks to work out.

no kinks to work out that I have noticed. They track as far as any of the old collars I had and the shock feature sure saves a TON of headache trash breaking.

I've had my Alpha a little over two years now and love it.  Way better range than the 220 and 320 and having the Tri-Tronics built in is awesome. Plus, you can link to your buddy's Alpha and track them also... sure helps if you ever dropped your handheld while hunting.

Better range, one handheld, and track and correct dogs at the same time. I tend to correct more on the "rig behavior" and what I can see dogs doing. I got mine in the beginning of this year and am mad only that I didn't do it sooner.

Thanks for all the help guys! I just bought two new shock collars and two new DC40s a couple months back and now Im wondering what the heck I was thinking!!! Sounds like a no brainer to me, Im switching over. So I know you can buy trade-ins from outdoor dog supply, does that mean they take trade-ins??? I emailed them a couple days ago but have not heard back yet, anyone know?

Man I love the my Alpha. If you are like our group of hunters, you run telemetry collars also, just in case the Garmin goes out. I got Gary at Magnum Telemetry to put the 10,000 hour telemetry transmitter on my Alpha collar, think it was the Kicker Model ($99), right beside the Alpha transmitter. Man you talk about easy, one collar does it all. Track, train and telemetry all on one collar, and Gary at Magnum Telemetry is all about customer service, had an issue with one of my collars, he sent me a new one, no questions asked. ----------Mike Starling

Im not familiar with telemetry collars, Are they for extremely long range? I think Ive heard bear hunters talk about them

Me and my dad made the switch this year.  He's not the greatest on learning new technology but figured the alpha out no problem.  I like em, we can track each other as well.  So far, I haven't had to use the trash breaker on it while hunting but have used it to train pups with.  We went from the 320 with DC 50's to the alpha with the TT15.  Great switch so far, and I was one of the few that really liked the 320 DC 50 combo package. 

As far as range, we are getting about 1.5 miles out of the antenna on the hand held, but we also have an external antenna on our truck, and when plugged into that, we can get about 3.5 miles out of it.  The Alpha also has a lot of other features on it that the 320 doesn't have either, such as marking perimeters, hunt times, sunset (basically a regular GPS Garmin would have).  You can also text another hand held with it.  It has something like 30 different messages you can send each other.   

Telemetry collars were the only thing we had before Garmin came out with their GPS system collars and receiver. I'm sure you have probably seen a nature show where the biologist are tracking an animal with the hand held antenna, that's telemetry. Each collar sends out a radio signal in a slightly different frequency than the other collars and you just dial in on its unique frequency to track it. Your Garmin does basically the same thing. The difference is, the radio frequency emitted by your Garmin collar, is put on a GPS map on your hand held screen. I for one am glad we have the Garmin option today, it sure makes life easier for a dogman. 

I might be the odd man out, but I run both on my dogs.  I've seen more times than not, my telemetry collars worked over the garmins, as far as range. 

3.5 miles out seems really good. I walk hunt but I use the telescoping antenna, I think its three or four feet long, Ive gotten 2+ mile reception and its really mountainous here.

I run both on my dogs also... there's been several times Garmin has failed and my trusty ol' Quick Track has led me to the dogs.

Same here. Only once did I have both collars go dead at the same time on a dog. I get made fun of sometimes for having so many antennas coming off a dog, but I've never had to leave one behind.

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I've had my alpha almost 2 years and love it. Plus all my buddies ( that have other systems) ask me if I will just put one off my collars on their dogs lol

The 220 and 320 have hunt times and moon/sunset info