Do you generally have lightning protection at this facility?
The best thing to do is to connect the antenna mount to your existing protection on the object with a lightning rod galvanized, with screw and nut on both sides. and of course clean the paint first.
But in any case, someone more skilled should look and advise you
These are not things for a forum
it is quite a dangerous topic you can break the protection of the entire object!
edit: I don’t think there is a need for the antenna to be so high you can drop it at roof height
the problem of the antenna on the mast is the movement of the wind and there is also the expansion of the metal of the frame which can distort the position
I installed a base station on top of my house yesterday. I have the adrusimpleRTK2B board hooked to a computer through usb. I ran a survey in mode for 12 hours and it got the location averaged to under 10 cm which I was impressed with. I find many videos online showing how to setup agopengps with rtk2go.com but I don’t see any videos on how to set up the adrusimpleRTK2B and cast the corrections to rtk2go.com. Leaving me a little lost on that part. Can I do that inside of U-center or is another program required? I registered with rtk2go but my base station name doesn’t show up in the casting table list.
Under the topic GPS refresh speed - #8 by MortenP
I’ve described how I use the program snip to cast from your Ardusimple to rtk2go.com. If you’ve got further questions let me know.
Perfect! Thank you for the help. I now have it casting to rtk2go.
The input data seems to climb rather fast in SNIP. Will it be like that on the other end when I am using my cellphone data? I read somewhere it was only 2 MB an hour and that would be great but in SNIP its more like 2 MB a minute.
I don’t know if that’s because you send too much information to rtk2go.com. Mine has been up for nearly 15 days now and has sent 715 mb. Mine sends the following messages: 1005,1074,1084,1094,1124 and 1230
Thanks for sharing this Darren. I have been using wifi ntrip master on an espduino but am having connection stability issues so may move over to a similar system. Hopefully ethernet will be better than wifi.
Just a suggestion but you may want to accurately determine the position of your base station using the free OS satellite data (as I think you are in the UK?) rather than surveying in. Data is provided here:
but only with 1 hour delay so a post processed solution is necessary. Full instruction for that can be found here:
I used Ucenter , but you can do either. But basic settings, will work out the box with ublox “base config” file to be honest…just check your port is correct
Hi @darrenjlobb
Really nice base station you’ve got here. Thanks for sharing. I would like to reproduce it.
I agree with you, going with the WiFi NTRIP Master from Ardusimple doesn’t make much sense to me, an ethernet connexion is definitely more reliable and should be preferred for a setup as static as a base station.
To allow me to reproduce your system, could you plesae share a schematic of the whole thing? Also, do you have the references of the modules you use (in particular the ethernet module) ?
Thanks
Valentin
I recently modified someone elses code for a wifi based NTRIP server on ESP32, so that it instead uses the standard Arduino Ethernet Library (So it works with an Uno and an Ethernet Shield V2). I have got it to connect successfully to RTK2GO, but I havent been able to test the RTCM data stream yet (I have installed my base station in the shed, but not yet layed my ethernet cable!).
If anyone already has the hardware and wants to give it a go my repository is here: NTRIP_LAN_Client_for_Arduino
Again just to emphasise, I havent actually confirmed if this works 100% yet!
All the info as you have found, is on the esprtk site…its a bit of a job by the time you get it all wired up etc, but has been up a few months now, and still up / stable…
That’s right. I found after a bit of research that there is plenty of information on this page Getting started for beginner - ESPrtk -ESP32 RTK to set up a ESPrtk system from any ESP32 board and an SPI ethernet module. However, the arduino solution of woody_matt seems easier to implement and looks promising. There is basically no wiring, only stacked shields. I will wait for his conclusions before buying any hardware
Hi
I have made my RTK base with a Ardusimple simpleRTK2B plugged in a Raspberry pi4. I use u-center and a windows computer to configure the Ardusimple board then I plug it in the Raspberry. The raspberry run on raspbian with RtkLib str2str.
Sorry for the delay in my response to you. I havent been able to lay my ethernet cable yet, but I have bought a TP-Link TL-MR3020 multipurpose access point and a 3G dongle to add a temporary internet connection to the ethernet network in my grainstore.
I have had to switch to an Arduino Mega 2560 (albeit a cheaper clone), I found the single hardware serial port on the Uno was not enough (using software serial and ethernet shield together doesnt seem to be reliable at all!), and the program stability on the mega seems much better, I think I might have been having memory issues on the Uno.
Hello @woody_matt
Thank you for the update. I think I’m going to go with your solution. It looks stratghtforward. It avoids having to build complicated circuits like with ESPrtk on ESP32and also avoids having to go deep in RTKLIB on Raspberry Pi. In short, it looks simple and I like that.
I am going to buy the required hardware and give it a go. I’ll come back telling you about it in a few days.
@Pat maybe the RTKLIB configuration is not as hard as I believe it is… By any chance, did you find an online tutorial showing step by step how to set up an NTRIP server on linux with RTKLIB ?
with screw and nut on both sides. and of course clean the paint first.