Michael, yes they work in heavily wooded terrain, we are in this type of terrain most of the time. High hills give the most trouble. So far I have been able to stay close enough that I havent lost contact with them. They will nearly always go three quarters of a mile under any condition and around 1 1/2 miles in rolling timbered terrain. There is a vehicle mounted antenna that is available that significantly increases the range. We are getting 2 1/2 to 5 miles with those. If I ever do lose contact the QRV operator can simply radio their GPS location to me and I can manually enter it into the reciever and Im good to go. The transmitter is not very big or heavy and would probably be OK on a 14 lb dog.

What is the high hills' particular trouble?


P.S. Love Terry's posts.... always look for 'em.

Connie, the GPS info is transmitted from the transmitter on the dog to the reciever carried by the handler via radio transmissions. This transmission is affected by terrain the same as any radio transmission. The FCC regulates the output of these devices to limit thier range. They are illegal in Canada at this time. The only time high hills give us trouble is when the dogs are on one side of a mountian and we are on the oppisite side.

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Connie, the GPS info is transmitted from the transmitter on the dog to the reciever carried by the handler via radio transmissions. This transmission is affected by terrain the same as any radio transmission. The FCC regulates the output of these devices to limit thier range. They are illegal in Canada at this time. The only time high hills give us trouble is when the dogs are on one side of a mountian and we are on the oppisite side.

Oh, duh. I getcha. Thanks.

Thanks Terry for your help in getting me started with the Garmin Astro. Used it on a search last weekend and the IC absolutely loved the maps I turned in. I download them into MotionBased (Web Based) where I can print them on aerials and it also provided the distance covered, length of time and also weather conditions. Great tool to use!

Terry I also sent you a PM. Thanks again!

Sandy

Well, we had four more run off from John H. Lilly Correctional Facility at Boley OK. The hounds ran them to a point about four miles south of the prison where they set a grass fire in an attempt to burn out their tracks. We was able to swing around the fire and pick up the trail again. The dogs was running hard and we were approaching the Canadian River, we figured they would try to swim it so the Helo was flying up and down it to contain them. When we got about three hundred yds from the water the pilot spotted them going into the water. He dropped down almost dipping his skids and pushed them back to us where they were taken into custody. Three were still togather and one had split off as soon after they left the prison. He is still at large and we are waiting for a sighting. The temp. was 102 and we had a mule go down due to heat exhaustion. She has recovered and seems to be ok. I was surprised at this because we have used the mules much harder than this before with no problems. The dogs seemed to handle it well, we had given them 120cc of Pedilyte just prior to taking off.

Glad to hear that once again the good guys won !!!!

Score another for the good guys.

Terry
Thanks for posting, I always enjoy hearing about the man hunting adventures.
I have no doubt that the dogs would have followed the bad guys across the water given the opportunity, my dog Gene has followed me into the swimming pond and also swam across the pond to check out some good smells.
However, I don't think it would be safe for them to catch someone in the water, somebody, dog or man, would probably drown.

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The dogs seemed to handle it well, we had given them 120cc of Pedilyte just prior to taking off.

I apologize if this would have been better posted in your post about feeding 1 or 2 times a day. Figured that since you mentioned it here it would be O.K. to ask here. Not trying to hijack.

Are you still feeding once a day and added the Pedilyte specifically for the chase?

Were you feeding morn or evening?

Thanks! I was curious if you had implemented a different feeding schedule.

P.S. I love these stories. I would kill to watch one of these chases. Sounds like a high-powered deer chase. Only the chasee can shoot back.