Howdy all, hoping to get some insight on some old gear, seems like the right place to ask.
I got a screaming deal on a pair of of R6-2s when my old employer/instructor/mentor/friend upgraded his equipment. Pretty cool owning the gear I first learned on.
We basically only ever used the rover with a cell correction (Eastern Canada), the odd time using the base with an external radio (if you're far enough in the bush you lose cell, you needed the external). He was pretty certain than the internal radios were able to transmit, just never tried it because the need never arose.
Now, I'm in Northern Canada (Yukon), and radios are the rule. No such thing as a cell correction up here. I'm using a TDC600 for a data collector, and if I run the base through a TRIMARK3 it works like a charm. But, there's a robust control network up here, and it's a lot of extra gear to lug around and set-up, especially when all the work is generally within a kilometre or two of the base, and it's just myself doing it all.
If I go through all the normal base set-up work flows to run as "internal" in trimble access, it won't start the base, prompting me that the radio is not configured as a base. Bummer.
Information on this topic with these old beasts is pretty scarce. I downloaded the GPS Configurator, tracked down the right cable, and hooked it all up. But I was unable to find the tab for "Transceiver".
Am I missing something? Were these units sold originally in such a way that the internal radios only receive? Is there a way to find out what the radio is capable of? It's a modular radio, if I do need to replace it in order to run as a base, will that radio be compatible with my rover?
On top of all that, I can't "start base" without hooking up the external... Which has proved to make it impossible to run static...
Anyone have experience with this, or a quick fix? Maybe I'm just missing something