GPS app ?

[ISCO]

We still use agribusiness navi with a Garmon receiver and seems to work well enough for fertiliser with us.
Have checked it when rolling and following spray contractor with fancy gps system and it appeared to be accurate for fertiliser.

 

[jondear]

We still use agribusiness navi with a Garmon receiver and seems to work well enough for fertiliser with us.
Have checked it when rolling and following spray contractor with fancy gps system and it appeared to be accurate for fertiliser.

Hi what Garmin receiver do you use .?Do you have a link?

 

[Bloders]

Looked into it the other day, there's a few apps but without expensive gps receivers (£500) they were not great. Teejet center line are about 850 new all in job done or a ez guide at slightly more. I tried a few apps with a garmin receiver on ipad the other day alongside a teejet, wasn't up to the job for fert or spraying could be 3m off

Has anyone used an "outback S lite" unit?
Any recomendatiosn where to buy Teejet or EZ guide from?

 

[jg123]

Has anyone used an "outback S lite" unit?
Any recomendatiosn where to buy Teejet or EZ guide from?

Google should bring up prices or john Rhodes etc

 

[DrDunc]

Has anyone used an "outback S lite" unit?
Any recomendatiosn where to buy Teejet or EZ guide from?

Used a claas branded outback s lite for years

Works fine once you've learned the setup menu on the wee screen.

Antenna performance makes a huge difference. With a £10 active puck from RS components it's accurate enough for tedding at 8m (around half metre pass to pass accuracy)

I've acquired a better antenna with the intention of retiring the outback and using one of the apps on a tablet instead. However the tablet that came with the very good BT300 Chinese antenna is way too slow and running on a well outdated version of Android

Long story short, I'm keeping the outback and using the better antenna until something better is found

A tee jet or ez guide will be easier to use and there's far more folks using them for advice on setup and driving

However unlike the more popular entry systems, the outback can be bought for a couple of hundred quid second hand

 

[Bloders]

Is there a significant difference in antennae quality?
As my other thread, our guidance packed up. To see if it was the antennae, i bought the cheapest i could from ebay (£12.00) and it works. Is there value in getting a more expensive (better?) antennae for it.

 

[OBKGCC]

Is there a significant difference in antennae quality?
As my other thread, our guidance packed up. To see if it was the antennae, i bought the cheapest i could from ebay (£12.00) and it works. Is there value in getting a more expensive (better?) antennae for it.

Long story short, no, the bigger antenna will not give you better accuracy or satellite acquisition. The other side of the coin is that the big antenna cable is thicker and hardier than the small "hockey puck" line.

 

[dowcow]

I use MachineryGuide from Hungary, with a bluetooth GPS antenna I bought from an electronics hobbyist who had designed one himself and was looking for some people to test them. All in I think the software was around £150, and the antenna £100, but the price of the antenna went up to £150 for later editions after proven to work well, and I don't think he is currently selling them now. 30cm accuracy, works well for fertiliser and spraying and as everything just plugs into USB power points in the tractor rather than being hardwired in, very easy to just fit it to the tractor when needed. Also needs a phone/tablet mount for the tractor. I use a cheap one and I think spending more would be beneficial to one that just sticks on the windscreen, although if bolted in would take up more space and be less portable between tractors.

The antenna is just a grey box with the bluetooth transmitter and power supply in it which goes in the cab, with a cable to the roof and a magnetic puck which sits on there. Getting the antenna high and unubstructed makes a good difference as in a tractor with plastic roof having it on the metal of the cab backwindow mount the signal is much more erratic.