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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 dog’s position and shows you exactly where he is,
even when you can’t 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 you’re ready
to turn him loose — no other setup required.
Track
Dogs in Dense Cover
As often as every five seconds, your dog’s DC 20 transmits
his position to your handheld, and you can see his current
location and a trail of where he’s been on the Map page of your
handheld. Switch over to the Dog Tracker page to view a compass
pointing to your dog’s location as well as his current status:
whether he’s 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 dog’s 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 you’ve captured your quarry, mark the exact spot with
Astro’s 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 you’re 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 Garmin’s 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
Garmin part number: 010-00596-00
Expected Availability:
Second Quarter, 2007
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