Garmin T5 Collar

[bullmastiff 615]

Gps forums seem to think the new T range of collars won't work in Britain but I've got a TT15 collar that works so it must be possible?

I just can't find out how?

[DigItDeep 15]

I've just bought to new tt 15 collars in the United States so I'm hoping they'll work on my alpha when I get home.

[bullmastiff 615]

None of the T series of collars from the United States seem to work in the UK. When you try and 'ADD DOG' so it can find the collar it will tell you its Disabled...... That's the bit I'm trying to get past now.

 

If you downgrade your Alpha so it works in the UK then it can't recognise the new collars.

 

It can definitely be done as mine was working straight out the box (Alpha and TT15 collar) mind you I bought mine from a UK based website.

I'm going to take it to work and get an engineer to check what frequency its running on, mine might be a legal bandwidth??

[Dunkanon 380]

Im pretty sure these boxes/collars can be changed so the collars work in UK, I was out recently with a local pack and they had loads of collars on hounds and the huntsman was explaining to me that he had to get someone to modify them or the box somehow and now they all work in uk.

[Wales1234 5,546]

A bloke on here down grade my Astro and it works perfect now no nonsense

[bullmastiff 615]

If you have an older DC series collar (DC30, DC40, DC50) then you can downgrade your hand-held device so it works in the UK. It's the new T series collars (T5, TT15 etc.) that are the issue.

[bullmastiff 615]

A bloke on here down grade my Astro and it works perfect now no nonsense

 

Don't you have a DC50 collar though?

[Wales1234 5,546]

Ahh I don't know bud it's all to complicated for me lol collars on let dogs go follow them that's all I know !

[DigItDeep 15]

Oh that is something that I was not hoping to hear bullmastiff

[DigItDeep 15]

Bullmastiff what UK site did u buy ur tt 15 from?

[bullmastiff 615]

Bought mine here.

http://www.handtec.co.uk/garmin-astro-320-t5-bundle.html?gclid=CjwKEAjw8qetBRCj6vKH8IC_kwoSJADGQ8dSLZyfeq_RtN8SJmyrHyJqtOK1Sh4Pqm__C-sEa81v0xoCgYTw_wcB

[bullmastiff 615]

Turkish is correct, my friend emailed GPS4US sales team and they will unlock/re-licence all Garmin hand-held types for $40 so that they will work with the new T series collars in the UK.

Looks a pretty simple process, so most people that can roughly use a computer should be able to do it.

 

Result!!

[DigItDeep 15]

Thanks bullmastiff. I bought my alpha handset from handtec and would have bought collars from them but there out of stock & have been for a while now and couldn't tell me when they would have them back in stock. i tried pairing the collars i got from the usa but the handset doesn't seem to be picking up anything from them. what software is on your alpha bullmastiff? it's 3.9 that's on my one but i think i'll have to down grade it to 3.7 anyway's.

[bullmastiff 615]

3.7 on mine. Luckily they had collars so I bought both together and they were paired already.