Without WiFi on the receiver, using the Bridge-X which I already had was one solution, the other would of been to figure out how to add WiFi to the receiver. As it is, additional hardware cost was very minimal and the nice thing is if I get someplace with no cell coverage, I can work the same as always with the bridge and my 900 Mhz radios after firing up the iSavi. My plan in the field would be to grab a couple short sessions from the RTN and thus save some labor time. A typical application would be post ID photo control over wide remote areas, so it is going to take a lot longer to either break out a base station and run it long enough to get an OPUS solution or some other method, I am hoping time is money and the labor offset plus increased number of photo ID's in a day will more than make up the cost of the air time, probably only need to gain one additional point a day to make this worthwhile, bearing in mind the travel times can be long, maybe an hour or two.
In other situations where there are denser point spacing, I would probably do as you are, grab a RTN position on the base location and then set up and run my own base, obviously with the cost of air time judgement needs to be used, I wouldn't plan on firing up and topoing all day over the Inmarsat data link 🙂
SHG
