Review on 🔔 Wireless Driveway Alarm System - Dakota Alert MURS MAPS-BS-KIT: Metal Detecting Transmitter with 50-FT Of Direct Burial Cable and M538-BS MURS Base Station by Wagner Witlin

So I bought four (yes, four!) Dakota probes + transceiver and tried to get one to work. I really wanted it to work. 1. (Dakota Alert DCPA-4K): worked for about an hour (while we tested it) and then stopped. 2. (Dakota Alert DCPA-4000): Actually worked fine but had very short range (doesn't even work within 200 yards of house, there are trees but house is still visible). rather than the 1 mile range of the previous two models I tried. Worked for two days before the batteries died. Unfortunately, I did all the work of digging trenches and burying the probe as it originally worked. I tried replacing the batteries and it took another day before it stopped working. (probably a short on the transmitter) 4. (another Dakota MAPS-BS-KIT warning): Although it's rated for 4 miles, it doesn't transmit trees for 1/3 mile, but there are no hills in between! it's either extremely poor quality control or a HUGE overstatement of the range. I contacted customer service a couple of times and they helped (although they couldn't fix the issue) so I added a star for that. So today I dug up the probe and removed the transmitter to send it back. I wasted so much time on such a flawed promising product.