Hi all
More for interest than to seriously use at the moment but I have an old Trimble 5700 receiver and zephyr antenna lieing around. I'd like to be able to try and use this as a base from home to post process against. I can get both survpc and magnet field to run on my pc but ofcourse neither seem interested in playing with a Trimble 5700.
Any suggestions what software I could use that would recognise my receiver so I could use my pc like a data collector?
Trimble GPS Configurator, but I think you'd still have to log the data to the 5700's internal SD card.
Thanks Lee
Is that freely downloadable?
Yes, both GPS config and Config toolbox mentioned are your ticket, I actually used both of these before I even obtained a TSCe or TSC2 with SC.
Use the Config toolbox to setup custom logging settings so that all you have to do is turn it on.
I used a 4gb CF card and it worked fine.. so it can be logging constantly as a CORS making 24h T02 files (or whatever interval you choose) all you will have to do is use GPS config to download the files as needed and delete files as space is needed.
If you don't have one yet, find a AC adapter to plug into the 5700 data/power cable for continuous external power.
You can set up a Power Up in Configurator as well. The principal advantage of Configuration Toolbox is that you don't have to be connected to the receiver to run it. But to control a receiver that's running in real time Configurator is the ticket.
There is also a Trimble utility called "WINPAN" that gives one access to 5700 features that the other utilities do not. BINEX, RTCM 3.0, CMR 5hz and CMR 10hz output for instance.
Hi All
thanks for the advice. I have been playing around with my 5700 and can successfully get it to show up with Trimble Configurator as the attached shows. You can see that the Firmware. I believe upgrading to 2.30 will fix the date issue? When I use WinFlash and try to update the Firmware (by choosing "Load GPS Software") I get the attached error message.
I have bought this unit atleast third hand. I have emailed Trimble about this previously but not even a reply of any sort.
I have no idea what the password is if I choose "Update receiver options" in WinFlash.
Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Instead of just putting a perfectly good receiver out to pasture I would like to use as a Base for Post Processing.
thanks in advance
Did you pay trimble the $500 to extend the device warranty? If you did it can take a day or two to be in the Trimble computer system after your dealer submits it.
Hi Bryce
No I didn't. Would struggle to justify spending AU$1000 for warranty on something I bought for AU$2000 2 years ago. Looks like I've all but got a glorified boat anchor.
Yes, trimble wants $500 USD to allow the user to install firmware released at the turn of the millennium. Has been discussed previously about how trimble could give the long EOL FW no charge with no effect to bottom line, but likely never will.
Before you toss aside, check the FW date, you maybe able to install up to 2.26 for free..
Also, if you can't justify the fee to bring it up to 2.32, that will only affect RTK. You can still log static but will have to manually alter the GPS week using teqc during Rinex conversion.
Yep TEQC is your best bet to make it usable but with a little extra work, here is a link please read the whole thing and notice at the bottom some people have got codes sent to them free even though it is supposed to be unavco members only.
With firmware version 1.24 I'd be willing to bet the warranty date is really old - like 2000 or earlier. The first thing I would do is check the warranty date using WinFlash and then load the last release that it qualifies for.
Is that likely to achieve much? My understanding is that I need to be 2.30 to sort out date issue.
In at least some cases with old Trimble gear, running through TEQC with the correct week number specified will fix the date for you.
