Dave488
Member
Hi I farm approximately 800 acres of mainly cereals in County Durham and I currently use a MF7720 with full autosteer to drill with only using EGNOS at the moment, which is not good enough for the job.
So I am looking at either upgrading my Autoguide 3000 system to RTK for drilling, which I believe will cost £4.5k for the two snap ins required and then between £750 to £1000 to subscribe to the signal via the mobile phone network as the only base station nearby is a Trimble one and correctly if I'm wrong, but I've been told the Autoguide 3000 will not communicate with it, as its locked to Trimble products only. Or alternatively I put up my own base station, which is not cheap.
So I was interested to read the article in the Farmers Weekly this week about budget GPS, where it is claimed you can buy the eFarmer FieldBee and portable base station for just over £1500!
This is obviously a lot cheaper than most other systems (not sure if its too good to be true) and I was basically wondering if anyone on here had either used one or know anyone who has?
So I am looking at either upgrading my Autoguide 3000 system to RTK for drilling, which I believe will cost £4.5k for the two snap ins required and then between £750 to £1000 to subscribe to the signal via the mobile phone network as the only base station nearby is a Trimble one and correctly if I'm wrong, but I've been told the Autoguide 3000 will not communicate with it, as its locked to Trimble products only. Or alternatively I put up my own base station, which is not cheap.
So I was interested to read the article in the Farmers Weekly this week about budget GPS, where it is claimed you can buy the eFarmer FieldBee and portable base station for just over £1500!
This is obviously a lot cheaper than most other systems (not sure if its too good to be true) and I was basically wondering if anyone on here had either used one or know anyone who has?