Radio Frequencies in Access

Is it Spread Spectrum or UHF?

Sounds Like SS, I may be wrong here.

As I understand it. If you have a Trimble Spread Spectrum radio, it cycles scans through many different frequencies.

Trimble S Series radio is 2GHz spread spectrum, meaning that it frequency hops based on a "hop table" (Trimble doesn't call it that). As far as I know, the specifics are not available.

Frequencies or Channels?

The little screen by the optical plummet displays
the latter, on powering up the S6, right?

> Frequencies or Channels?
>
> The little screen by the optical plummet displays
> the latter, on powering up the S6, right?
>

Yes but if you read the OP, you'll realize I don't have a faceplate (it's an S3). I was wondering if I could glom that information through Trimble access. I have another TSC3 with Survey Pro and it reads the channel and the network id directly from the instrument. I can't seem to find a way to do that in access. The collector is having a hard time finding the gun. And I've followed all the trimble procedures, (it should pick up all the settings once I plug in with the cable and tell it to go robotic) so I figured I would input the channel and the network id manually and see if it would work.

Thanks,
Ralph

From an older ver. 1.60 Access manual...

1. From the Trimble Access menu, tap Settings / Connect / Radio settings.
2. Configure the Radio channel and Network ID to the same values as those set on the instrument.
3. Tap Accept.

When the controller connects to the instrument using either a cable or Bluetooth technology, the radio settings in the instrument are automatically synchronized to match the controller settings.

EDIT: Just checked my current manual...same.

> From an older ver. 1.60 Access manual...
>
> 1. From the Trimble Access menu, tap Settings / Connect / Radio settings.
> 2. Configure the Radio channel and Network ID to the same values as those set on the instrument.
> 3. Tap Accept.
>
> When the controller connects to the instrument using either a cable or Bluetooth technology, the radio settings in the instrument are automatically synchronized to match the controller settings.
>
>
> EDIT: Just checked my current manual...same.

Yeah it should do it automatically, but it's not working.

Thanks

Are you using the gray USB cable from left side USB port of TSC3 to the com port of the S3?
If so does the TSC3 connect to the S3 so you see HA and VA angles in General Survey?
Then under the SettingsConnectRadio check that it is not set to external Radio. The OPTIONS key down bottom lets you change that. If using the internal radio you will see a radio version and serial number. If you see those and type in the channel and ID and hit ACCEPT then this does set the S3 radio. If yours doesnt then probably a case for your dealer to look at