- Location
- Wiltshire
Mine is in the roof hatch. Not swapped one myself so not sure exactly which box it’s in.
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- Thread starter Pheasant Surprise
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Does it go into the box on the right? If so do you know where the SIM card holder is? Thanks
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- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
I've not been into a vd03 but if its similar to the vd02, remove the plug from front of it and Sim slot is in there
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
Interestingly that is a vd04 4G unit, looks same as a vd02 though
- Location
- East Yorkshire
Remove the plug from the VD03 by pulling the red lock across, then there will be a small yellow button to press in that will release a SIM tray, be VERY careful with this as it is very easy to break the sim tray off the circuit board and end up with it all rattling around inside the unit (I may or may not have experience in this...) same goes with re-inserting the tray, ensure it is the correct way up and aligned properly, carefully push it in until it is secure and put the plug back on.
Then you can put your sim and NTRIP settings in via the terminal and connect to the server.
- Location
- East Yorkshire
You will need the APN details for the sim provider (three), you can usually find these by just googling, once you have it working you will see it searching and get a signal and most importantly an internet signal (it will come up with E/2G/3G/4G).
Then once you have a signal you would need a username and login for the NTRIP server, as well as the IP address and the mountpoint which will tell it where to connect to.
- Location
- East Yorkshire
IP address and mountpoint will be provided by your NTRIP provider along with the username and password for the NTRIP service, these are different login details to the SIM login details
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- Location
- East Yorkshire
The first time you connect it can take a minute or two to connect for the first time, as it's saying that it looks like it's connecting to the server and working properly there.
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
The signal lag is not correct. It should be a number showing last connection to the base. That one isn’t seeing base properly
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
Can you take a picture of the settings within the bottom 2 tabs
Northern farmer
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- Location
- North
In addition to no lag indicated, the distance to the base is reported as 50 km which means no RTCM message containing the base coordinates has been received.
- Location
- Wiltshire
- Location
- Pinnaroo. South Australia
Distance to base I wouldn’t worry about as the nearest base might be that far away. Mine often says 50000 meters but then I use it up to 200 km from where I have the base at home.
once it sees the base properly though that number will change to actual distance if its closer than 50 km but will stay at 50 if further away.
once it sees the base properly though that number will change to actual distance if its closer than 50 km but will stay at 50 if further away.
- Location
- East Yorkshire
I wouldn't say it is a SIM issue, I would say it is likely more to do with the login at the server end if it's getting to the stage of saying "receiving data", that and the tick means its connecting to the server and the login is being accepted so there is a data stream there, but if it's not getting any further than that it's likely the login isn't allowing data to be sent back?
