Our idea is to get our Trimble rovers to talk with our contractors base station. Not sure if this is possible without spending a fortune on new equipment. Has anyone out there accomplished this? If so what all was involved in getting this to happen.
We are currently using Survey Pro software. Our Clients are suing the trimble SCS900.
Would we need the 900 to talk with theirs?
Thanks for any input.
I am fairly certain that Trimble has things set up to keep the construction and survey equipment lines separate. As far as base-rover communications goes, I believe that the construction series operates at the 900MHz band, and the survey line operates in 450-470MHz band. Using a R8 as a rover with the SCS-equivalent base won't happen because the radio chipsets are different.
Alan Chyko, post: 323320, member: 1145 wrote: I am fairly certain that Trimble has things set up to keep the construction and survey equipment lines separate. As far as base-rover communications goes, I believe that the construction series operates at the 900MHz band, and the survey line operates in 450-470MHz band. Using a R8 as a rover with the SCS-equivalent base won't happen because the radio chipsets are different.
Yea that's what I figured.
The software that the contractor is using really has very little to do with it. I have an SPS 851 base that transmits UHF.. My rover is the SPS 881 (R8 equivalent) and I'm using Survey Controller.
The dirt crews mostly use the SPS 851 base with 900mhz radios. I use my data collector to start their base all the time. I can connect my trimmark III radio to one of them to transmit UHF and connect my rover that way.
We have a couple of the SPS 985 bases that transmit 900 mhz. I haven't tried connecting my radio to them yet.
The key is to be on the same radio band, 450's or 900's, and be using the same transmit compression format or protocol, CMR+ or CMRx.
James
If they are running an IBSS they can allow you access to their base.