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« on: April 18, 2016, 10:16:10 pm »

Got a astro 320 with dc 40 collars and everything has been updated and I loose communication with  dogs at 250 yards and never picks back up. I have long range antennas on everything and I just don't know why it does it any idea?
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2016, 10:22:07 pm »

Are you hunting with people that are using an alpha ?
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« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2016, 10:28:56 pm »

No but a buddy that has the 320 also and is connected to the collars to
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« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2016, 10:33:02 pm »

Are you hunting with people that are using an alpha ?
What does that cause chris??? I was having problems with my 320 and dc40s til i updated everything, my buddy runs an alpha...... something causing interferrence between the astro and alpha???
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« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2016, 10:44:55 pm »

Are you hunting with people that are using an alpha ?
What does that cause chris??? I was having problems with my 320 and dc40s til i updated everything, my buddy runs an alpha...... something causing interferrence between the astro and alpha???

Justin I've been hearing where the alpha blocks out signal to the 320 somehow ..
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« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2016, 10:46:33 pm »

I have hunted with a guy that uses a alpha Saturday but I didn't tonight maby because me and another guy share the same collars???
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« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2016, 10:51:34 pm »

I'm no expert by any means on this but maybe delete and re-add the collars
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« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2016, 10:52:48 pm »

Ok Ill just have to start trying stuff and see what works.
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« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2016, 05:39:42 am »

Are you hunting with people that are using an alpha ?
What does that cause chris??? I was having problems with my 320 and dc40s til i updated everything, my buddy runs an alpha...... something causing interferrence between the astro and alpha???

Justin I've been hearing where the alpha blocks out signal to the 320 somehow ..

hmmmm, I haven't heard that but it could very well have been the problem with mine. It seemed to act right this weekend after I updated everything  but I was having hell with it before and 75% of the time Im hunting with a guy that has the alpha so it is possible. Thanks
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« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2016, 09:48:03 am »

Make sure connection where antenna gets screwed down is clean onbothsides.
If hand held is updated and so are collars, update each collar to hand held.
Communicate with collar, click on dog.  Once you get to the stats of that collar hit menu, and it'll pull up update collar. Update each collar to hand held by itself. Turn off collar move on to next.
Have you tried that?
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« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2016, 10:44:04 am »

no i havent i will try that and could it be because a buddy of mine has a astro 320 that also connects to my collars also?
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« Reply #11 on: April 19, 2016, 11:49:23 am »

I doubt it, we use to track the same collar too when I was using 320
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« Reply #12 on: April 19, 2016, 12:44:41 pm »

ok ill try the update with the collars thing.
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« Reply #13 on: April 19, 2016, 02:12:46 pm »

check you ID'S on your collar, the last #( example) if you have a 12 id and you or some one in your party has  any collar ending in a 2 ( ex. 2,12,22,32) that is the reason, switch ID#
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« Reply #14 on: April 19, 2016, 04:51:15 pm »

check you ID'S on your collar, the last #( example) if you have a 12 id and you or some one in your party has  any collar ending in a 2 ( ex. 2,12,22,32) that is the reason, switch ID#

yep what he said. or just have him turn his collars off and yours should pick right up
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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2016, 06:14:11 am »

No but a buddy that has the 320 also and is connected to the collars to


Is your buddy able to track the collars further than you are?  If so that directly points to your Astro as the problem.  They have a wire that runs from the antenna connection into the guts of the Astro that has known to break.  If updates don't fix the problem it is time to contact Garmin. 1-800-1020
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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2016, 08:30:19 am »

ok I updated it again, ill try it out and see if thats more than likely the problem.
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