If anyone is looking to go to base and rover over the internet you may want to scan this info.
This info regards the FREE emlid NTRP Caster service. In a word, (hmmm, 2 words...) it works!
I have a Trimble R10-1 that came with no radio (European product), which has been sitting on a shelf collecting dust. I have been using an R12 as a net RTK rover on the Florida permanent reference network, and getting fair results, however, a lot of our work involves heavy canopy conditions. So, just a couple days ago I arranged for a purchase of a Pacific Crest ADL Vantage 35 radio, and planned to use it to go base R10/rover R12.
After using the Carlson listen-listen internet based base/rover with our Brx7s, I have become a believer in the internet for base/rover work. So, I went looking and came across emlid NTRIP Caster, and decided to see if I could set up the R10/R12 for internet base/rover.
Creating the Styles and the GNSS connections takes only a few minutes. The results were/are well worth it. For me, the hardest thing to figure out (emlid website did not mention) was that the R10 base (using Trimble Access) has to be setup using NTRIP v1. Also, the base setup does not use a username, but the rover does. Emlid provides the IP address, Port #, Password (different for base and rover), Mount Name, and Username for the rover. Trimble Access gives all the necessary boxes to fill in the provided info.
I know very little about setting up Trimble GNSS and very little about Trimble Access, so if I can make it work anyone can.
This afternoon I used the R10 as a rover on the Florida FPRN in order to collect a base setup point (ie rtcm0001. (I don't know why Trimble required ??rtcm? in the point name). Then, I switched the R10 to the emlid base style I had created to output corrections to the internet, and took the R12 rover out to a control monument 1.5 miles away. Northing and Easting were out 0.015' each from published coordinates. Also, running in thick canopy produced quick fixes.
Anyone need a fairly new Pacific Crest ADL Vantage 35?
Hoping to find a way to route data coming from the base to be sent to the internet directly from the R10 via a Verizon mifi device.?ÿ
My old R10-1 does not have 4G capability, so I am unable to use a SIM card inside the R10. Also, the older TSC3 (with Access software) controller is not 4G capable. And so, I use a Verizon mifi connected with wifi to the TSC3, which then takes the data from the R10, through the TSC3 and pushes it onto the internet via the mifi. The big negative with this arrangement is that it takes 2 controllers (1 for base and 1 to run rover), each with Access, because one controller (along with the internet connected mifi device) has to be left with the base.
I don't know if it is possible, but I am hopeful someone knows of a way to route data coming from the old R10, to be routed directly through the mifi to the internet.?ÿ
All help would be appreciated.
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I don't know what exactly was happening but there was some massive radio interference in the area of one of the projects I was working on last fall.?ÿ I could not get an internal or external radio to work.?ÿ The company arranged to test drive one of the ntrip caster devices that the local Trimble guys are selling and it worked as advertised-- set up the base and was able to work all day without problems.
Unless you do work in areas without cell towers it really doesn't seem to make sense to buy a traditional external radio anymore.
I now use a microhard cell modem with wifi at an R10 base. Connect Wifi from the R10 to the base (client mode), which has a static IP sim card. The modem passes port 2101 to the R10 which is running the Ntrip caster. It also passes port 8001 for webUI. I use port 80 (default) to access the modem UI. All of it password protected.?ÿ
I have several from microhard. Canadian company, but no problem getting them sent here, and it wasn't a problem sending one back to Canada for warranty repair. The bulletplus line has wifi. They also have serial ports, I have used them that way with older R7 as a base. You have to get the correct model for the carrier you want to use (verizon or AT&T). I do have one modem that I use with verizon that supposedly will work with both, but I have not tried that one on AT&T. You can get a verizon static IP sim from https://www.dataactivationcenter.com/?ÿfor $20/month
https://microhardcorp.com/BulletPlusAC-CAT9.php
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You can get a verizon static IP sim from https://www.dataactivationcenter.com/?ÿfor $20/month
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