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How to check if my second -hand GPS unit is FCC compliant?
Posted by Luke7574 on January 21, 2019 at 5:59 amHello! My name is Luke and I have a question for anyone that may know.I bought a used RTK kit (trimble 5800-450-470) and I want to check to see if I am in compliance with 12.5 spacing,how do I do this?Sorry if its a dumb question,I just have no clue. Thanks!
shelby-h-griggs-pls replied 5 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies -
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What kid of radio are you using? If it’s an hpb450, only 10 20 % were narrow banded before trimble “ran out of parts” and you had to buy a new one.
Hpb was commonly sold with 5800s, cable it up and connect it to pdldealerconfig software and run through the steps. The little report will show you.
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Go into Trimble Winflash (download if you don’t already have it)
Connect to 5800
Click on Configure Radio Settings
Frequency Selection
Radio Configuration
Channel Spacing
You will have 2 selections, 12.500 or 25.000 KHZ, 12.500 being the FCC compliant
Ronald W. Berry -
well,I am using the internal radio on my 5800/w uhf transmit,I am only doing 1-50 acre alta surveys ,so it has been working so far.I want to get an external radio for longer distance but I want to be sure I buy the right bandwith .Im not sure if a 25k pdl4535 will communicate with a narrow banded 5800
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ok,Thank You! I was hoping there was another way because I lack a serial port on my PC
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Posted by: Luke7574
well,I am using the internal radio on my 5800/w uhf transmit,I am only doing 1-50 acre alta surveys ,so it has been working so far.I want to get an external radio for longer distance but I want to be sure I buy the right bandwith .Im not sure if a 25k pdl4535 will communicate with a narrow banded 5800
No it won’t, BUT even if it would, in the USA at least it wouldn’t be legal. You will need a 12.5 khz base radio to be legal. I have no clue what the radio is in the 5800, it would also need to be narrow band capable if it is used to transmit, regardless of output power.
SHG
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