cityboy wrote:
Without being too long winded, here is a new idea for antennae problems.
If you cut open the rubber casing you'll find a wire coil inside. You can stretch that sucker out 12-15 inches. Unit sits below dogs neck. Wire can be heat-shrinked or what have you and brought up to point to the sky! My only question is: Are there any type of radiation dangers with the wire not being encased in the factory rubber. You know, all the warnings going around about radio and cell phone waves causing cancer or whatever. We've done this with one of our collars and it seems to work pretty good.
With radio waves I can't imagine that being a problem. I would have a caution on stretching the antenna... I was pulling my dog off a coon and accidently grabbed the antenna when I pulled. Stretched it out. After several more hunts it stopped transmitting properly, I began "losing" my dog frequently. I tried reinforcing it by putting a CD player antenna down the middle but wasn't able to fix it. That antenna is in the garbage now.