A ROBUST GPS SOLUTION FOR BIG GAME DOGS IS NEARLY HERE

[RIFLEMAN]

[kdrchuck]

[BigGameHunter]

If this system uses cell towers then in 90 percent of what I hunt it would be useless. If it is a sat phone system then it would be to expensive. Either solution I would think would require some type of subscription fee sort of like your cell phone plan. Any input on these concerns?

The idea is nice if it is feasable and cost effective.

[Matt]

[bowhunter7]

I'm sure it's not a cell signal. That wouldn't do anybody any good. The communication feature could just as easily utilize a satelite (the same as satelite phones). I'm interested in seeing this. I believe GPS in one form or another is the future of dog tracking, but like many others I am not buying a 1st generation system.

Jim

[coonfool]

[beardog-treed]

[Plott Proud]

As long as this unit works as is presented, it sure sounds like the winning ticket to me!

[Melanie Hampton]

[Paul Conway]

You forgot to include the monthly user fee in your wonderful assessment of trackers new GPS unit and the 700 to 1200 dollar cost depending on features you want. Based on the info you already have from Tracker I'm thinking you already knew those costs and didn't want to share em.

Here's the problem as I see it: Our group of houndsman already have several astros. I've tried to have the guys wait so that we only use the ones we have while others (including tritronics) come out with thier version. To do that though I needed some ammunition to go back to the fellas and say hey this Astro works, but we know it's faults- here's what Tracker, or WLM or Tritronics will have out over the summer or early fall, etc. etc. Couldn't get the engineer from tritronics to call me back (go figure, but I wasn't askin for trade secrets just a thumbnail of what we can expect and he coulda called and just said he couldn't tell me). Tracker told me enough so that the monthly user fee and initial cost didn't compare to Garmin. Sooo now we have four Astros and collars that will not be compatable with any other system that comes out (at least that's what it appears) and too much invested to go backwards as we continue to add an astro or two every month to our group at less than 500 bucks for a unit and collar. Shame on Tracker for being a day late and dollar short in my opinion.

Paul Conway