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Table Of Contents

USER GUIDE
Legal Notices
Safety Information
- Regulations and safety
- Type approval
- Exposure to radio frequency radiation
- Installing antennas
- Battery safety
Contents
Introduction
- About the SPSx80 Smart GPS antenna
- About the SPSx81 Smart GPS antenna
- Related Information
- Technical Support
- Your Comments
Features and Functions
- Overview
- SPS780 Smart GPS antenna features
- SPS781 Smart GPS antenna standard features
- SPS880 Extreme Smart GPS antenna standard features
- SPS881 Extreme Smart GPS antenna standard features
- Use and care
- COCOM limits
- Parts of the receiver
  - Front panel
  - Lower housing
- Button functions
- LED behavior
  - LED flash patterns
Batteries and Power
- External power
- Battery safety
- Battery performance
- Charging the Lithium-ion batteries
- Storing the Lithium-ion battery
- Disposing of the rechargeable Lithium-ion battery
Setup Guidelines
- Base station operation guidelines
  - Base station components
  - Base station setup guidelines
- Rover operation guidelines
  - Rover receiver components
  - Rover receiver setup guidelines
- Cellular modem and external radio
Setting up the Receiver
- Connecting the receiver to external devices
  - Trimble controller with SCS900 Site Controller software
  - External radio-modems
- Common ways to set up a base station
- Common ways to set up a rover receiver
Configuring the Receiver Settings
- Using the SCS900 Site Controller software to configure the base station, the rover, and the radios
- Configuring the receiver to log data for postprocessing
- Configuring the receiver in real time
- Configuring the receiver using application files
- Creating and editing the configuration files that control the receiver
AutoBase Feature
- Setting Up a Base Station
  - Best practice
  - Antenna type
- Scenarios
- AutoBase process
Default Settings
- Default receiver settings
- Resetting the receiver to factory defaults
- Default behavior
- Power up settings
- Logging data
  - Logging data after a power loss
Specifications
- General specifications
- Physical specifications
- Electrical specifications
- Communication specifications
- GPS satellite signal tracking
- Integrated radio options
- Variable configuration options
NMEA-0183 Output
- NMEA-0183 message overview
- Common message elements
  - Message values
- NMEA messages
- ADV
- GGA
- GSA
- GST
- GSV
- HDT
- PTNL,AVR
- PTNL,GGK
- PTNL,PJK
- PTNL,VGK
- PTNL,VHD
- RMC
- ROT
- VTG
- ZDA
GSOF Messages
- Supported message types
- General Serial Output Format
- Reading binary values
  - INTEGER data types
- GSOF message definitions
Adding Internal Radio Frequencies
- Adding receive frequencies for the 450 MHz internal radio
Real-Time Data and Services
- RT17 Streamed Data service
- Login authentication
Upgrading the Receiver Firmware
- The WinFlash utility
  - Installing the WinFlash utility
- Upgrading the receiver firmware
Data Logging and Postprocessed Measurement Operations
- Connecting to the office computer
- Transferring files directly from a CompactFlash card
- Deleting files in the receiver
- Supported file types
Troubleshooting
- LED conditions
- Receiver issues
- Base station setup and static measurement problems
Glossary

A NMEA-0183 Output

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PTNL,VHD

Heading Information

An example of the PTNL,VHD message string is shown below. Tab le A.12 describes the

message fields.

$PTNL,VHD,030556.00,093098,187.718,-22.138,-76.929,-

5.015,0.033,0.006,3,07,2.4,M*22

Table A.12 PTNL,VHD message fields

Field Meaning

0 message ID $PTNL,VHD

1 UTC of position in hhmmss.ss format

2 Date in mmddyy format

3 Azimuth

4 ΔAzimuth/ΔTime

5 Vertical Angle

6 ΔVertical/ΔTime

7 Range

8 ΔRange/ΔTime

9 GPS Quality indicator:

0: Fix not available or invalid

1: Autonomous GPS fix

2: RTK float solution

3: RTK fix solution

4: Differential, code phase only solution (DGPS)

5: SBAS solution – WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS

6: RTK Float 3D network solution

7: RTK Fixed 3D network solution

8: RTK Float 2D network solution

9: RTK Fixed 2D network solution

10: OmniSTAR HP/XP solution

11: OmniSTAR VBS solution

10 Number of satellites used in solution

11 PDOP

12 The checksum data, always begins with *