What companies/websites have you used to license you rtk radios? This trimble receiver will be a base/rover and has a 410-470 mhz radio. I have filled out an application for ALTUS Licensing Company and Data services, they charge $660 to fill your license. I wanted to ask around to see if anyone new of a cheaper licensing company. I would try myself, but it is to confusing for me!
I bought a trimble receiver for some farm work (on tractor for guidance and elevations for rice fields).
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You can do it yourself on line with the FCC.
I tried to do it myself and the FCC told me that I had to go through a frequency coordinator. If you did it on your own, how did you do it?
Tom
Y'all, I'm telling you now..................he's going to mess it up. You just watch!! 😛 😀 +o(
The last time I did it, I renewed ours. It looked like you could also do a new license on line, but I'm not 100% sure. There are some techinical details you have to figure out ahead of time. One that sticks in my head is the emission designator. Thats whats nice about having someone else do it, they know the answers to all those questions. Its not that daunting of a task, you just have to put some value on your time.
I think about 50% of the cost is fees to the FCC, so the way I figure it, unless you know what you are doing AND can complete the entire process in under 2-3 hours you are wasting billable time.
SHG
actually he's gps'ing in the stump locations. farm boy you know. MOO!!
> I tried to do it myself and the FCC told me that I had to go through a frequency coordinator. If you did it on your own, how did you do it?
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> Tom
There are different services at work here:
Paperwork filers (I think you can do this if you really want to.)
Frequency coordinators (I think you have to pay them no matter what.)
> What companies/websites have you used to license you rtk radios? This trimble receiver will be a base/rover and has a 410-470 mhz radio. I have filled out an application for ALTUS Licensing Company and Data services, they charge $660 to fill your license. I wanted to ask around to see if anyone new of a cheaper licensing company. I would try myself, but it is to confusing for me!
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> I bought a trimble receiver for some farm work (on tractor for guidance and elevations for rice fields).
We have someone doing ours (Federal Licensing, Inc) and they told us that it will take months...no actual projection on timeline, since the FCC is up to their eyeballs in this narrowbanding stuff.
I cannot make a recommendation either way with these folks, since the process is still going, and I don't have anything to compare it to.
-David
I just had Radio Licensing Services do a new RTK app.
Total was $585 and $160 of that is their fee .. the rest
is FCC and cooridinator fees. Sounded fair to me after spending
some time on the FCC site. I'm sure you could plow thru it
but I've got other things to do. The fee depends on how many
freq's you want to register. This was for five. An additonal
five would add $150