Hello,
My name is Michael and I am from eFarmer. We have found that these receivers work well https://www.optimalsystem.de/ as well as these http://gps.dualav.com/explore-by-product/xgps160/
whats the price of them?
Hello,
My name is Michael and I am from eFarmer. We have found that these receivers work well https://www.optimalsystem.de/ as well as these http://gps.dualav.com/explore-by-product/xgps160/
Only +/- 2.5m accuracy as well.Hi Michael, the
SkyPro XGPS160 GPS Receiver sounded Ok until I got to the $148.96 bit. do you know of anything cheaper?
I downloaded the free agribus-navi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.agri_info_design.AgriBusNavi&hl=en_GB
and went out for a play. It is on a Samsung Galaxy S5 and is just the free download using the phone's own built in GPS.
The main downside was the total lack of instructions. It may be intuitive to people who have used this type of thing before but I struggled to work out how to set my AB line (the first pass across the field from which parallel passes are measured.) If I pushed the AB line button it seemed to grab the last ten meters as the base line which was not good enough on a thirty acre field.
I walked up and down the tramlines of a field I can see from our bedroom window. We work on 36m tramlines put in by eye with a 3m drill, and from my bedroom window I can see that there is an almost perfect 50 cms liquid fert overlap on this field. ( Good work @Pumba that is 50 mm accuracy, who needs RTK!)
Because I couldn't set the AB line across a full tramline the light bar feature became very inaccurate but the shaded map of the coverage was reasonably accurate. If you were putting on fert with a spinner which would have a big overlap then this feature alone would provide reasonable accuracy on undulating ground.
If someone has worked out how to set the AB line along the length of a tramline then let us know. Also does a plug in GPS antenna give better accuracy?
It is important to remember that this is a completely free program.
Whoever first posted this app deserves a vote of thanks,
and off course the devolopers,
Seems to work well enough on a samsung phone for grassland fert
noWhen using the agribus navi app on phone does it have to use mobile data when using it ?
I followed ganders advice using farm sprayer app and got myself a wee qstarz. Use it on my Motorola android phone and I just set the qstarz between the dash and the windscreen. So far I have been sowing cut silage ground with 18m spinner, oh and I did open a field when mowing, and it worked pretty well. Getting the location of the receiver right for that is less easy though with two mowers. Probably should strap it to right mudguard, but not brave enough!
I like the farm sprayer, just because its nice to see the fields and gives you a bit of confidence that you are being tracked accurately. I did find it a bit haywire in one field and switched it from 10hz to 1hz, which seemed to settle it down. Can anyone explain what thebhz settings are for?
PS for a budget system, fifty quid is darn good. Never thought I'd have GPS guidance on my humble dairy farm.