Base station or Sim

[Lofty]

What are you on at the moment?

Fact, not fiction.

 

[Steevo]

Fact, not fiction.

Sorry?

 

[andyinv]

Good thread @Adeptandy. We have 2 tractors on ntrip RTK that will be up for renewal at the end of the year.

Which ntrip RTK base station would people recommend so we can save the cost of the subcriptions?

We have a 3rd tractor which is currently on omnistar, I presume this would be a bit more involved and require modems and unlock codes to get it onto an ntrip system?

Your own?

How to set up your own RTK base station.. for about £300

Finally got round to documenting how I did this - have since got a couple other going in the neighbourhood, and now they're there for anybody to use, if they so wish. The idea being, get a couple going in your community, provide resilience through redundancy (you can self-publish to take rtk2go...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

 

[Northern farmer]

Your own?

How to set up your own RTK base station.. for about £300

Finally got round to documenting how I did this - have since got a couple other going in the neighbourhood, and now they're there for anybody to use, if they so wish. The idea being, get a couple going in your community, provide resilience through redundancy (you can self-publish to take rtk2go...

thefarmingforum.co.uk

Yes but I assume the question was about which hardware to use. The Ardusimpe SimpleRTK2B GNSS receiver board and a Raspberry Pi are cheap and complete software is available for free. There are many commercial products that may be a bit easier to set up but are twice as expensive. Then some well known precision ag products that cost 20 times more.

 

[andyinv]

Yes but I assume the question was about which hardware to use. The Ardusimpe SimpleRTK2B GNSS receiver board and a Raspberry Pi are cheap and complete software is available for free. There are many commercial products that may be a bit easier to set up but are twice as expensive. Then some well known precision ag products that cost 20 times more.

Oh absolutely... and my guide shows exactly what to buy and how to set it up. What I especially like about rtkbase/ardusimple is you can diagnose any issues yourself. I also extended it to update a dynamic DNS provider any time my IP changes.

Had a guy on mine the other day, he was having stability issues elsewhere and so used mine instead as I was closer. I could see his connection direct on my rpi, and noticed that his source port was occasionally incrementing. Thus, connection issue on his side - his signal kept dropping out.

Not the sort of info you can easily dig out with a closed system.