Sparkfun facet connection and radio CHC Dl8 28 w?

Eureka.

After more than a year of research I achieved my goal.

My idea was to use the Facet as a base and broadcast its corrections via professional radio, to receive them on a CHC i50 rover.

I managed to go from TTL to RS232 with a converter and my problems were with prints in the converter. In the end, by trying a lot, I managed to define which port of the converter the Tx of the facet should be connected to. The power for the converter comes from the Facet and I have not noticed that the battery drains much faster.

The second challenge was to splice cables and connectors that matched the CHC radio.

In the end everything worked very well.

I tell you that the radio and wiring for it were purchased on Aliexpress second-hand but like new.

The TTL-RS232 converter was purchased here in my country Uruguay, since its value is very low.

So I have a first-class base that can issue corrections via Wi-Fi through ntrip as originally used and now through a professional radio with a range of many km.

I thank everyone who sent their opinions over time. The long exchanges of ideas with Toeknee were always productive and of course thanks to Sparky who is always there for us.

Congrats! Glad to hear you got it working!

Thanks Tony. It has changed the way I work. Having corrections over distances of several km is fantastic. I know that you have also made several improvements with different radios. We continue exchanging ideas.

Update: I have been arriving from the field and without problems I managed to measure points with practically instantaneous fixed solutions at 3.5 km.

The addition of a solid and capable radio output port would be very good; an RS232 port could be added to the facet by Sparkfun. It would be very useful for different uses to have two output options (TTL and RS232).

The team deserves an improvement in this area without increasing the value of the product too much.

greetings