You might take a look at Trimble Range Point RTX
I don't know if it is compatible with your Explorer 6000 but it should work with the R10.
Hopefully, you have some other projects that require the power of the R10. Otherwise, the salesman really took advantage of you.
> Sure everything could be done with a mapping grade unit, but just how good is the expected vertical? +/- a meter? Decimeter? Might be a stretch... I presume you have no/few reference stations in the area so post-processing is probably out of the question unless you set up your own bases, and PPP will not yield high precision vertical without a sufficient convergence time (no instant shake-n-bake).
According the post-processing the accuracy i'm getting vertically is 30-50cm on average, sometimes better, sometimes worse depending on conditions. There are a number of bases available for PP in our area so I often use PP with multiple, 4-6 base stations depending on their availability
> You might take a look at Trimble Range Point RTX
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> I don't know if it is compatible with your Explorer 6000 but it should work with the R10.
> Hopefully, you have some other projects that require the power of the R10. Otherwise, the salesman really took advantage of you.
I'll look into it the RTX.
It's entirely possible we were taken advantage of; I wasn't the one who purchased the equipment.. My boss did while I was still in school and I think he was relying heavily on our supplier's recommendation.. Regardless, we have it now so i'm going to try to learn how to properly use it.. Supplier's tech support will be getting a call today.. We were told the R10 would be fine for the glacier work we do and that we could accurately operate on just the rover.
Just pay for the subscription and get the RTK values (after shooting them a few times and averaging them) and then throw them into a LSA. Quick, painless, easy, and money ahead.
Let us know how things work out. Maybe we will all learn something.
The R10 and TSC3 are probably the BEST and most powerful tool you can have to do what you want done.
You can stake out without RTK, but not as precise as with it. Yet I don't think there is another GPS that will get you closer, what you were doing before is not as good as what your base rover R10 can do.
The R10 base has an internal radio, the way to use it is take your base radio and use it as a repeater, placing it on a high point which may be next to the base or miles away, also, you can remotely place repeaters, as many as you need, to get RTK and that's what I would do, each repeater can be the small type with a light battery, placed on a high point, then you can really extend your RTK into holes and valleys without moving the base unit, take them with you and use them as needed.
