Dc 50 problem

[Bo Pugh]

Yesterday when I was hunting I let two dog out one with a 30 and one with a dc 50. I look eat my tracker and they was .8mile. I laid it down and when i went back and looked about 10 minutes later it said the dc 50 collar was 164.08 miles away and I had full communication on everything. It showed the dog over in Mississippi and I'm in alabama. I bought the system new and collar new and I've never been to Mississippi hunting? I deleted the collar and added it back and it picked up 164.08 miles. I went to the dog collar and clicked on the go option and it drew a line to the dog at a mile but then went right back to missippi I had a pretty good idea where the dog was so I went around there and got her but that could of been a bad situation if it had been on one of my main dogs. Anyone else ever seen this happen before

[Backwaterboys]

Hey man my 50s did the same thing but only on one of my places. It's around alot of oil field pads/equipment. I do not know what the equipment is but my friend said it has some kind of GPS signal that sends signal to the workers phone when there is a problem. This is the only place my collars have messed up.

[Bo Pugh]

I wonder why it's only with the 50s. We probably had 15 collars some were on dogs at the truck and I had two dogs with 50s on only one of them did it the other was on my sometimes good dog haha. The place I was hunting on isn't nothing but pine trees and briars it's a powerline maybe 1 mile away but that shouldn't have messed it up I hunt around them some and it don't seem to interfere. Tommorow when I get home I'm going to turn on that collar for a while and see what it does. I would think if it does that regular garmin should fix that at no cost shouldn't they? So far I have not been impressed with the dc50 collars one bit. I have started putting a quick track collar on some of my dogs to for reasons like this but i did not have one on this dog.

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164.08 miles huh, and to think mine will go 4 miles at best.

[Bo Pugh]

Yea 168 miles across interstates and all kind of hwys. And it had full communication is what has me confused  like the dog was really over there, this collar hasn't been tracking but about a mile butAll in a matter of about 10 minutes this dog had left the country. We laughed about it my buddy said it must have caught a jet air plane but that could be bad if I didn't know the area pretty good and if it would of been on a dog that I really needed to keep up with. I'm skeptical about putting it on another dog I think I'm going to call garmin this week

[Backwaterboys]

This new place I am hunting has all my 50s doing it. But only that one place. Mine reads 164 miles. And full communication on the dog and the bark detection still works. Like I said earlier its only that one place that they do this. Maybe someone who works in the oil field could give me some more info on what's on them sites that may cause this. Hopefully there is something garmin can do because I am getting rid of all my 40s to buy 50s and can't have this happening.

[jsh]

My 50 did the EXACT same thing this wknd but was showing 48 miles in West Texas. I was hunting around lots of oil equipment..........interesting.

[carolinahoghunter]

hold the power button down on the collar for 30 seconds for a reset. also garmin has updates out to fix connection problems i did the reset and update on mine 2 weeks ago i called my garmin guy rasing hell asking why i sold my quick track system for this junk but i did everything he told me to and it fixed all my problems and i get more distance now.  i thought my handheld went bad until i realized my old trusty DC-30 was still working.  the problem i have is i keep having to calibrate the compass on the handheld when i hunt off my 4 wheeler. normally i hunt off a horse and i never have to calibrate it,

[killswitch]

update your handheld on web updater and this will fix yal's issues. my buddy logged my dc 50's in and it said 148 miles away and i updated hes handheld and its worked perfect ever since.