RTK Express : Temperature tolerances for the Antenna, Power Specifics and getting Ublox data out.

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Hi folks, I am wanting to run my RTK Express as a semi-permanent base station - it’ll have a solar panel and a couple of big batteries. The receiver will be warm, but I expect the antenna will get very cold in the winter.

My main concerns that I would like some advice on.

If I plug it into a permanent power supply - will the receiver overheat or stop working after a set amount of time?

If it gets really cold outside (-20C) will the antenna continue to work? - I have the one from the RTK express kit.

Is there an easy way to get the raw Ublox message off the receiver either streamed or as an hourly or daily file? Either on to external storage or transmitted through a IP modem? I will be running full-constellation GNSS at 1Hz.

Cheers!

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1 - No, that should be fine

2 - The antenna shouldn’t have much issue with cold weather…the main thing to be on the look out for is if freeze cycling overcomes the seal and begins to allow moisture inside

3 - Depends on how adept your programming skill are… here’s info on the standard way (SD card swap) https://docs.sparkfun.com/SparkFun_RTK_ … x-to-rinex …but you could send that same data over BLE, wifi, or serial from the ESP32 chip with some effort