REVIEW: SportDOG RD-400 Dog Tracking System.

REVIEW: SportDOG RD-400 Dog Tracking System

The SportDOG RD-400 is designed for folks that want to pick dogs up after a hunt.

Their system has a large antenna and is more suited for use from a vehicle to locate dogs after you are finished hunting.

SportDOG RD-400 comes with a backpack carrying case and you can take it with you, but it is about 3 feet long.

The SportDOG Receiver RD400 is a multi band system (216,217,219,220) and can track 64 different frequencies on these bands (16 per band)

You can purchase the SportDOG RD400 as a 2 dog system and add up to 62 additional collars as you need them.

SportDOG goes about collar frequencies in a unique way that has several advantages. Each SportDOG transmitter (Collar) can be set to any of the 4 bands and any of the 16 frequencies that the system will track.

This is a nice feature in the event that you hunt in an area that other folks also use tracking collars. You can change the frequency and band of your collar if you need to if someone else is transmitting on the same signal.

Since SportDOG uses preset frequency choices in it's receiver, it does make it difficult to use the RD 400 receiver with other brands of tracking collars.

The other downside to the SportDOG system is battery life on the collar-transmitters. We get a little over 100 hours of runtime from a single 3 volt lithium battery.

As long as you keep up with how long you have run your dogs and you check your batteries this isn't a problem, but you need to keep it in mind. You do not want to release a dog with a low battery in his collar and have it run out while he is in the field.

These batteries are user replaceable and can be changed in the field. They run around $6 each. If you hunt a lot, you may be better off with a more expensive system that has a longer run time from it's batteries. This will save you money in the long run.

Formerly sold as the Innotek RD-400 Tracking System.

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