Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
Rangepoint RTX
- Thread starter Steevo
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- Lincs / Notts
Just renewed my rtx rangepoint from Trimble store yesterday. Gone up from £220 to £265 in a year!
Got pass code back straight away by email. Entered into 750 screen and instantly recognised it. Don't know if that helps you?
Got pass code back straight away by email. Entered into 750 screen and instantly recognised it. Don't know if that helps you?
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
£220 + VAT = £265?
Renewed mine yesterday too. Normally use passcode to upgrade, but there was an "over the air" option so I chose both. Seem to remember it's not possible with RTX but thought I'd check.
- Location
- Lincs / Notts
Didn't see the over air option. Just looked at invoice and vat element is £0 as other years. Just hope it doesn't go up by that amount (£45) each year!
Take it you paid the same?
Take it you paid the same?
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
Just checked again and you're right. To be honest I hadn't even noticed the 20% increase. Thanks for pointing that out.
It's still very good value, but a hike like that without explanation does seem rather unjustified.
It's still very good value, but a hike like that without explanation does seem rather unjustified.
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
Some one on here said last month that it was going on the 1st of September i thought it was going to be £250.00
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
Wish I'd spotted that - would have bought it before Sept and then carried it over. Ah well....could have been worse.
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
Very glad I'm not on Omnistar. Was originally going to (and paid for the unlock) but Rangepoint saves me the best part of £650 a year.
Pheasant Surprise
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- Location
- Woodbridge, Suffolk
Omnistar pricing is a total ripoff!
Not sure why you'd spend that much on an annual sub, for a technically and practically inferior service.
You can buy RTK subs for less money, besides which RTK is more accurate, truly repeatable, converges 100 times faster and doesn't dropout due to being reliant on a geostationary sat for corrections.
Not sure why you'd spend that much on an annual sub, for a technically and practically inferior service.
You can buy RTK subs for less money, besides which RTK is more accurate, truly repeatable, converges 100 times faster and doesn't dropout due to being reliant on a geostationary sat for corrections.
Tractor Boy
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- Suffolk
It does depend what system you have though! One well known system you need to buy the unlock to Omnistar then on top of that the unlock to RTK and also the RTK radio receiver. That's a lot to spend in one go. If you can buy the unlocks one at a time and gradually get to RTK it's less of a shock to the bank balance in one hit!
Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
Our case is on omnistar I've tried the centre point this year to see if it is worth the extra, if not I'll drop back to rangepoint next year.
Was quoted £3995 for the unlock, RTK radio and joining fee for RTK coverage.
Centrepoint was £995, if RTK is £500 per year that means an extra 8 years to pay it back?
Pheasant Surprise
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk
CapEx on the receivers will be dependant on manufacturer and whether they front load or back load the costs of unlocks as you move through the steps.
The cost uplift here to go from an Omnistar enabled receiver to RTK enabled (the RTK module includes mobile and UHF radios) was just under £2K. Last Omnistar sub was about £830 per year, and will be more now. So on those figures, with cheaper RTK subs the payback is a lot shorter and the overall cost, CapEx and OpEx over 5 years was approx. £500 premium for RTK.