RTK Subscriptions.

[Pheasant Surprise]

290 euro per year.

Sounds too good to be true. What country are you in and what service provider are you getting your VRS service from?

 

[Chickcatcher]

"SO" where abouts in the world are you @SinisaB
from your
FM750 with EZ Pilot-seed drill problem adjustment
You sound as though its not England

 

[Northern farmer]

Would be nice to see how sparse their VRS network is. Is his problem the EZ-pilot thing or the VRS signal.

 

[SinisaB]

"SO" where abouts in the world are you @SinisaB
from your
FM750 with EZ Pilot-seed drill problem adjustment
You sound as though its not England

Hi!
No, I'm not from England. I'm from Serbia.

 

[SinisaB]

Would be nice to see how sparse their VRS network is. Is his problem the EZ-pilot thing or the VRS signal.

Whole country is covered by RTK network and it works pretty good.
There are 2 reasons why the signal is cheaper:
1. 3 RTK dealers in small country-competition
2. poor country- has to be available for as many farmers as possible

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Whole country is covered by RTK network and it works pretty good.
There are 2 reasons why the signal is cheaper:
1. 3 RTK dealers in small country-competition
2. poor country- has to be available for as many farmers as possible

Assuming this is a “special” price for farmers/agricultural contractors? Surveyors etc generally have deeper pockets and can pass on higher costs to their clients. Are the RTK networks there in general use by folks outside of agriculture - like surveyors - or at these networks for agricultural users only?

We have a large national network in the UK that is run by the Ordnance Survey but it’s re-branded and resold by Topcon, Trimble, Leica an even CNH are now licensing it. The variance in end user cost in this one identical network is significant.

Then of course we have independent specialist agricultural RTK networks but they don’t cover the entire country.

 

[Daniel Larn]

Assuming this is a “special” price for farmers/agricultural contractors? Surveyors etc generally have deeper pockets and can pass on higher costs to their clients. Are the RTK networks there in general use by folks outside of agriculture - like surveyors - or at these networks for agricultural users only?

We have a large national network in the UK that is run by the Ordnance Survey but it’s re-branded and resold by Topcon, Trimble, Leica an even CNH are now licensing it. The variance in end user cost in this one identical network is significant.

Then of course we have independent specialist agricultural RTK networks but they don’t cover the entire country.

Definitely a 'special' price, corrections can easily run into the tens of thousands of dollars. I think we used to pay about $1,800 per month for corrections with Fugro.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Definitely a 'special' price, corrections can easily run into the tens of thousands of dollars. I think we used to pay about $1,800 per month for corrections with Fugro.

Cripes! I hope that was for a fleet of oil tankers rather than a fleet of tractors.

 

[Daniel Larn]

Cripes! I hope that was for a fleet of oil tankers rather than a fleet of tractors.

Not a fleet, just the one ship! I think they do an annual fee which made it about $1,500 a month.

I did wonder how so many farmers were able to afford it, but you quickly learn that when people know you have big pockets, they give you big prices.

 

[SinisaB]

Assuming this is a “special” price for farmers/agricultural contractors? Surveyors etc generally have deeper pockets and can pass on higher costs to their clients. Are the RTK networks there in general use by folks outside of agriculture - like surveyors - or at these networks for agricultural users only?

We have a large national network in the UK that is run by the Ordnance Survey but it’s re-branded and resold by Topcon, Trimble, Leica an even CNH are now licensing it. The variance in end user cost in this one identical network is significant.

Then of course we have independent specialist agricultural RTK networks but they don’t cover the entire country.

As far as I know RTK network is used both survryors and farmers.
Anyone who has a need for RTK signal can pay for it and use it.
We have also national network which was re-branded and resold by Trimble. Now Trimble has own network with Trimble base stations. Third seller is Titan Machinery with (I think) Novatel base stations.
The best one and the cheapest one is Trimble (290 € / year).
Surveyors use national network.

You can built your own RTK network. There is one German forum where you can read everything about it.
Even you can make DIY autosteering system.
See how it is look like:

It cost only 2000 €. This guy has his own RTK base station. It works over celular internet.