FX3 remote problem

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jspike1

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I went out today with my new FX3 for only the second time and had major problems. I set up in the neighbors cow pasture on the side of a hill. The FX3 was set up about 80-90 yds away in my line of sight. Problem was that the remote only worked every once in awhile. It was the most fursterating evening I have had. I was basically waving my arm slowly above my head pressing the remote buttons like crazy. I was so ticked off that the only thing that kept me from throwing the remote down the hill was how much this caller cost. Any help would be appreciated.
 
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I was basically waving my arm slowly above my head pressing the remote buttons like crazy .



That right there may be your problem. Instead of pushing and clicking the remote like you would the TV remote, try pressing and holding the button down for a second or so. also make sure you have fresh batteries in the remote.
If this does not help, then you may very well have a problem. Contact Foxpro and they will get you taken care of.
 
Crapshoot the batteries only had 35 minutes on them before today. After you press the buttons how long do you hold the button before it processes. I had no idea that the remote wasn't a press and click type. Thought that I read the directions closely. Thanks for the reply. Joe
 
When the remote has not been used for a few seconds, it goes into a sleep mode to save battery life. You can either depress a button to wake up the remote (the display will lite up) and then press the button again to perform the function (this only needs to be done if the remote has gone into the standby/sleep mode) OR you can press and hold the botton for aprox 1-2 seconds . This allows the remote to wake up and then send the command.
Is the 9V battery in the remote one you bought and put in or one that came with the unit? Make sure you use good quality duracell or energizer batterys. Peplacing the battery may be a cheap and easy way to make sure that is not the problem. Unfortunatly , sometimes things happen and you may wind up having to send the unit back to Foxpro for repairs. But rest asured that they will get it fixed for you.
 
crapshoot is right on the money, ck the Batt in the remote, also ck the charge on the caller, I have had new bats in the remote, and forgot to charge the caller and could not get any responce from the caller, that thing went crazy, changing sound and all kinda mess, right in the middle of a stand, charged the caller and every thing worked great. If that is not it, FoxPro will take care of it, ASAP!!!!!!
 
jspike1,

The buttons on the remote should be depressed and held for about a second and a half. This is a latency is due to the fact that on a button press, the first thing that happens is that the microprocessor comes to life, and after that, the signal is sent to the receiver. If we kept the lcd active all of the time, battery life would be greatly sacrificed on the transmitter. If you are still having an issue, give us a call, and we will get you taken care of. We are sending out thousands of callers in any given month, and I can assure you that every unit is tested twice before it leaves our door.

browning204,

What's your hmmmmmm about?? It seems that your name is brought up in almost every FOXPRO post. Why is that?

Mike Dillon

FOXPRO, Inc.
"The Caller of the Wild"

The True Leader.
Often imitated, never equaled!
 
A couple more things if I might add to the discussion. Don't point the antenna of the remote directly at the caller like you might with a T.V remote. Hold it pretty much straight up and down. I haven't had any issues of any sort with my FX3 once I learned to give the remote a couple of seconds to transmit. However, a couple of guys have reported that muffling the remote tightly against their body caused some problems. Makes sense. I wear my remote around my neck from a Reese lanyard so you don't have to have it very far away at all. Maybe just a few inches or so.

This past season after an unsuccessful stand I stood up and walked away from my caller to check how far my remote would work through the timber and brush. This is thick woods and brush, I lost sight of the caller and decoy after about 70 yards. I walked downhill off the ridge I had the caller set up on, down a fairly steep grade. Every fifty long steps or so I would check the function of the caller, changing sounds, volume, muting and unmuting. I lost the ability to control the caller at 237 long steps down through the brush. At the gun club I have checked my stride against the 100 yard targets often and I always get 98 of my steps to pace off the measured 100 yard line. I figure the caller was probably at least 100' above me in elevation because of the grade of the slope I was walking down. BTW, toward the end I had it on the crow fight and dying crow distress sounds during this testing and had a murder of crows that mobbed the caller and Predator Supreme decoy up on the ridgetop. One paid the price by landing and acting as lookout. The 75 grain V-Max allowed him to look at his feathers all around him as he summersaulted out of the tree! Plenty good enough for me... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
It does take a bit of getting used to in the manner that the remote sends commands. Same as most others, I simply push the button once to wake up the remote then send whatever command I want to the remote speaker. Play with it in a parking lot somewhere till you get it figured out.
I did also have a problem with the range of the remote but an e-mail to Foxpro cleared that up as well. My normal routine was to lay the remote on the ground pointed towards the speaker. This was to minimize the chance that the movement of my hand would be seen by an incoming animal. The answer from Foxpro mentioned that the remote needs to have the antenna pointed up in the air and should be at least 6" off the ground because the ground cuts way down on the signal strength. It also needs to be a little way away from the metal on the rifle as that messes up the signal as well.
 
Thanks guys I figured that it was probably user error. I was doing everything opposite of the recomendations. I have tried it the way you guys suggested and have been calling in crows at work during lunch. If they were in season it would make the day go by faster.
 
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