Product Manual

How To Use this Documentation
Please read this section to understand the or-
ganization of the present manual. This will
help you navigate more easily through the
pages and find more quickly the information
you are looking for.
Chapter 1 provides a full description of the
ProMark 800 (front panel display screens,
connectors, accessories, batteries, etc.).
Compared to the Getting Started Guide, this
chapter provides four additional sections: Us-
ing the Carrying Case, Specifications, Firm-
ware Options and Port Pinouts.
Chapter 2 explains how to set up the equip-
ment for RTK surveys.
Chapter 3 gives information on how to set up
ProMark 800 for post-processed surveys and
how to collect raw data with a standalone Pro-
Mark 800.
Chapters 4 and 5 give in-depth information
on GNSS surveying techniques, seen from
both the theoretical and practical point of
view. Key terms and expressions are also in-
troduced at the beginning of each of the sec-
tions. The purpose is that you not only
become familiar with these techniques, but
also make them yours.
Note that these chapters refer to GNSS
equipment in general, including Ashtech
equipment, and so are not specific to the Pro-
Mark 800 only. If in doubt with what the Pro-
Mark 800 really does in such or such
circumstance, please refer to the Specifica-
tions section in chapter 1 of this manual.
Chapter 4 gives information on surveying
techniques for both real-time and post-pro-
cessed surveys. It includes separate sections
on such particular topics as base position,
initialization, antenna heights, virtual anten-
nas, accuracy, elevation vs. height and local-
ization.
Chapter 5 deals more specifically with RTK
surveying, introducing hardware means and
data formats that exist today to implement
the data link. (Through the data link, the rov-
er receives the data it needs to operate in this
mode.) Chapter 5 also introduces the two po-
sition output modes available in RTK and
helps surveyors choose the one that’s best for
their applications.
Chapter 6 is a collection of first-level mainte-
nance instructions you may have to refer to,
should you encounter problems with your
equipment. The list of possible alarms (and
remedies) is also provided in this chapter.
Chapter 7 is an appendix gathering various
procedures and memo pages (file naming
conventions, button combinations, etc.).
As a supplement to the ProMark 800 Refer-
ence Manual, four additional appendices are
provided describing all serial commands and
data outputs pertaining to the receiver.
Appendix A is an introduction to the $PASH
proprietary commands. It introduces the two
categories of commands, tells you how to ap-
ply them, describes the conventions used in
their description and provides an alphabeti-
cal list, combining set and query commands
in a single table.
Appendix B provides a full description of all
the set commands.
Appendix C provides a full description of all
the query commands.
Appendix D provides a full description of all
the output messages.