RTK Postcard Field Testing

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Greetings,

I am happy to report I have been doing some field testing recently with the RTK postcard and the L1/L2/L5 antenna. After using the correct vertical offsets to ARP in Surpad I can happily report with no site calibration I was able to hit local county benchmarks 0.04’ horizontally and numerous NGS vertical benchmarks 0.02’ to 0.05’ vs published geoid 18 values.

I did these tests using Oregon’s DOT RTN network. I have since purchased an additional setup to use LoRa and a base to see what kind of accuracies can be achieved vs a regional RTK network.

I also plan do some static observations and see what opus results can be obtained.

Overall if someone is looking for an affordable RTK solution this is a great one. If Quectel can fix GST decimal places then I believe it will be rock solid.

I tested this setup against a Carlson Bx8 and Topcon Hyper GNSS antenna and checked better on a known benchmarks using the same RTN network.

Sincerely a very happy Surveyor

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@AORPLS , these new GNSS chipsets are so inexpensive and have the capability to produce extremely accurate results - it kind of feels like cheating doesn’t it ? :wink:

My TopCon and Trimble equipment have basically been retired from service.

BTW: I’m seeing some NEW Products added inside the RTK Everywhere Source Code.
I hope we don’t have to wait too much longer for an announcement.

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Excellent!

Glad to hear that is working well, and also hope the decimals issue is corrected soon.

As for announcements…something this month is likely! :wink:

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