Drilldo, post: 456357, member: 8604 wrote: Antenna height is everything. We have a 30?? tall mast we put our base antenna on. It makes a huge difference.
The rubber duck antennas on the rover don??t work very well. They work fine up close or in the wide open but be have seen double the distance using an external antenna on the rover. It doesn??t have to be tall either they make a bracket that clamps on to your rover rod and you can put a little antenna that is less than a foot tall on it and it makes a huge difference.
We recently surveyed around 2500 points on a six square mile area with lots of hills and thick thick thick trees with a single base location and no repeaters and 16 watts on the base. Set your base up in the highest location possible and get the antenna in the air. I have seen radio signals blocked a distances of less than half mile when there is a hill between you and the base.
Only problem is you can't do that with an R10. I use to do it all the time with my 5800.
And that is one reason for still offering a model of receiver without everything in the box, or at least allow for an external antenna connection for both the comms and the GNSS signals, plenty of applications are much more suited to separating the components.