Base for reach rs2 rover compatibility

[giulio_pacella1 (Giulio Pacella)]

Good morning. i have a stonex s9 ( trimble maxwell board) , somebody can tell me if it can be a base for a reach rs2 ? ? Sorry for my bad english

[dmitriy.ershov]

Hi Giulio,

It should work well, however, you need to set up a correction link.

[giulio_pacella1 (Giulio Pacella)]

This is the stonex s9

[svetlana.nikolenko]

Hi @giulio_pacella1,

We communicated with you by email. Let’s continue the discussion here so it might be useful for other users.

Stonex S9 supports outputting its position in RTCM3 format. Also, it has an RS-232 port, just like Reach. So it should work fine if you connect them using a couple of external telemetry radios.

[giulio_pacella1 (Giulio Pacella)]

Thank you, what kind of radio ? You can say a model?

[giulio_pacella1 (Giulio Pacella)]

I can mount a radio loke this to the s9 ?

[svetlana.nikolenko]

Hi @giulio_pacella1,

LoRa radios from different manufacturers may be partially incompatible, it’s the feature of the protocol. So I’d recommend you to connect both Reach and Stonex 9S to a couple of external telemetry radios. The main requirement is the ability to connect via RS-232 port.

By the way, we have a post about testing Reach RS+ with external radios:

Reach RS+ tests with external UHF radio (450 MHz)

To collect cm-accurate data in the real-time, you need a reliable correction link between base and rover. With a set of Reach RS+, you can use built-in LoRa radio for RTK communication. This will work well for most applications on distances up to 8km (sometimes even up to 19km). In some cases, you might want to use other connectivity options of Reach RS to set up RTK link. For instance, if you send/receive RTCM3 corrections from RTK GNSS receiver of another manufacturer. With the good Inter…

It should also work fine with Reach RS2.