I am attempting to set up my sparkfun Lg290p breakout board as a locally hosted base station which I then would use to send all of my rovers the RTCM data corrections to get the RTK lock for each rover.
The problem im running into at the moment is attempting to find the exact location of my base station. I need to be able to utilize the “Survey-In” mode of the quatcel chip so that I can run the survey for a couple hours to get the exact gps location of the antenna for the base station.
When attempting to put my board into base station mode, (and then eventually in survey-in mode) I run into the issue where the serial port just starts spitting out gibberish (maybe binary?) immediately after putting the unit in base station mode and then saving and rebooting.
I factory reset it with:
Sent: $PQTMRESTOREPAR13
Received: $PQTMRESTOREPAR,OK3B
Then I wanted to set it to base station mode:
Sent: $PQTMCFGRCVRMODE,W,229
Received: $PQTMCFGRCVRMODE,OK64
Then upon save and reboot this is what the serial output looks like (just a snippet but you get the point):
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Idk if this is spitting out raw binary data? Or what is going on, but from the forums I’ve seen, it should not be looking like this… Ive even tried to continue to send it commands to try to get it back to normal, but nothing seems to change the output until I reset it back to factory and then it goes back to spitting out the normal GNSS outputs. Any and all help is appreciated!