How To Set Up Trimble Base Station

A quick guide for setting up your new R8 series or R10 Trimble base and rover receivers using Trimble Access.

Many of our land survey customers are first-time users of Trimble RTK equipment. If you've purchased your organisation from Positioning Solutions, our sales support team has already Set Up Your Bluetooth Connections, basic Survey Styles and radio settings so your equipment arrives ready to work.

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This is a quick start guide and should be used to test your equipment BEFORE heading out to the field. Utilize this as a reference only.

*Annotation 1: If yous intend to transmit on whatever UHF frequency for any length of time - you should use the scan feature first to ensure that channel is clear.

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Function 1: Starting Your Base of operations Station Receiver

Power both your Base and Rover receivers and ensure radio antennas are installed. Never transmit without a radio antenna.

With your base station receiver ready upwards (and level) over a known point:

i. Open Trimble Access field software and select Full general Survey

Trimble Access - General Survey

ii. Select Jobs to showtime and new job or open existing i. If creating a new chore, enter the backdrop of the site including Coordinate arrangement, Datum and average Project height.

Trimble Access - Open Job

three. Select Measure out: RTK , then Start base receiver.

Trimble Access - Start base receiver

4. Your TSC3 will connect to the Base receiver via Bluetooth. *Notation ii

Trimble Access - Starting survey RTK

5. Signal name: Select from List or Key in the coordinates of your position. For equipment testing - we use the "Here" feature.

Trimble Access - Start base

6. Antenna height. This is the measured elevation of the receiver in a higher place the occupied point, typically on a tripod with optical plummet, measured from the occupied point to "Bottom of antenna mount" - a.1000.a. bottom of the receiver.

Trimble Access RTK Antenna Receiver Height

vii. Press Start. Congratulations! Houston - we have lift off. Your base of operations station is now transmitting RTK corrections.

Function ii: Starting Your Rover Receiver:

After yous base station has been started and transmitting RTK corrections, you lot can now become the rover going.

ane. Select measure

Trimble Access - Measure RTK points

ii. Select RTK

Trimble Access - RTK Rover start

3. Select Measure points

Trimble Access - Starting Survey

4. The TSC3 / TSC7 will drop the Bluetooth connection from the base receiver and brainstorm to connect to the Rover. You will see the name of the receiver displayed, typically the model followed by the serial number (which can exist inverse nether Bluetooth settings).

Trimble Access - TSC3 Bluetooth connection

5. After your controller establishes the Bluetooth connexion to the rover receiver, it will now search for a base of operations station that is transmitting on the same radio frequency.* Note three

Access screen capture - Starting RTK Survey

6. Once Reliability reaches 100%, select Have.* Annotation iv

Trimble RTK Base Index Reliability

vii. Starting survey will appear while your Rover receiver is initializing. This could have up to 1 minute before yous achieve initialization and "Fixed" RTK condition.

Trimble Getting Started Guide - RTK for R8s and R10 GNSS receivers

eight. Initialization has been gained - Congratulations! Yous are set up to mensurate.

Trimble RTK Guide R10 with ebubble screenshot

***On-screen eBubble is but available on the R10 and R12 receivers.

Note 1:
Before staring your base station, e'er check the radio channel for whatsoever other traffic or interference. Never transmit without the proper radio antenna equally it tin damage the radio board.

Note ii:
Prior to shipping your base and rover organisation, our support team typically has already set up Bluetooth connections between your Trimble Base and Rover receivers. If you are not able to connect your TSC3 to your receiver via Bluetooth, please meet our guide for: Setting upwards Bluetooth connections

Notation 3:
The Index number displayed should lucifer the Index number of your base station (gear up in Survey Styles). If 100% reliability is non achieved, you may be likewise far away from your base station or may take interference on the radio frequency that is selected.

Note 4:
Reliability is the percentage of RTK corrections you are receiving from the base station. This should always exist near 100%. Lower reliability value is an indication that y'all are not receiving all of the base of operations station corrections which tin can be caused past several factors.

We hope this helps! Over again, this is only intended every bit a quick reference - i.due east. testing your equipment before heading to the field.

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