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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
- Related Information
- Technical Support
- Your Comments
Features and Functions
- Overview
- SPS780 Smart GPS antenna standard features
  - SPS780 Basic features
  - SPS780 Max features
- SPS880 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
- Operating the receiver with a Trimble controller
Setup Guidelines
- Base station operation guidelines
- Rover operation guidelines
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
- Flowchart showing the 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
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
- GSOF message definitions
Adding Internal Radio Frequencies
- Adding receive frequencies for the 450 MHz internal radio
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

5 Setting up the Receiver

38 SPSx80 Smart GPS Antenna User Guide

Connecting the receiver to external devices

You can connect an SPSx80 to the following devices:

• a Trimble controller running Trimble SCS900 Site Controller software

• an external radio-modem

Trimble controller with SCS900 Site Controller software

To connect a Trimble controller that is running the SCS900 Site Controller software to

an SPS GPS receiver, use Bluetooth wireless technology ( for all except the SPS770 GPS

receiver) or a serial cable. Table 5.1 shows how to connect the cables for each

combination of SPS GPS receiver and Trimble controller.

Table 5.1 Connecting to a Trimble controller running the SCS900 Site Controller software

Use this cable

connector …

and connect the

cable to …

Cable part number

To connect a SPSx50 Modular GPS receiver to a …

TSC2 DB9 TSC2 32960

Lemo SPSx50

TCU 6-pin Hirose TCU 53004007

Lemo SPSx50

TSCe™ Lemo TSCe 31288-xx

Lemo SPSx50 This cable is available in different lengths. The

-xx indicates the length of the cable, in meters.

ACU 4-pin Hirose ACU 44147

Lemo SPSx50

To connect a SPS770 Modular GPS receiver to a …

TSC2 DB9 TSC2 32960

Lemo (Port 1) SPS770

TCU 6-pin Hirose TCU 53004007

Lemo (Port 1) SPS770

TSCe Lemo TSCe 31288-xx

Lemo (Port 1) SPS770 This cable is available in different lengths. The

-xx indicates the length of the cable, in meters.

ACU 4-pin Hirose ACU 44147

Lemo SPS770

To connect a SPSx80 Smart GPS antenna to a …

TSC2 DB9 TSC2 32960

Lemo (Port 1) SPSx80

TCU 6-pin Hirose TCU 53004007

Lemo (Port 1) SPSx80

TSCe Lemo TSCe 31288-xx

Lemo (Port 1) SPSx80 This cable is available in different lengths. The

-xx indicates the length of the cable, in meters.