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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

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NMEA-0183 Output A

GGA Time, Position, and Fix Related Data

An example of the GGA message string is shown below. Table A.3 describes the

message fields.

$GPGGA,172814.0,3723.46587704,N,12202.26957864,W,

2,6,1.2,18.893,M,-25.669,M,2.0,0031*4F

Table A.3 GGA message fields

Field Meaning

0 message ID $GPGGA

1 UTC of position fix

2Latitude

3 Direction of latitude:

N: North

S: South

4 Longitude

5 Direction of longitude:

E: East

W: West

6 GPS Quality indicator:

0: Fix not valid

1: GPS fix

2: Differential GPS fix

4: Real Time Kinematic, fixed integers

5: Real Time Kinematic, float integers

7 Number of SVs in use, range from 00 through 12

8 HDOP

9 Orthometric height (MSL reference)

10 M: unit of measure for orthometric height is meters

11 Geoid separation

12 M: geoid separation is measured in meters

13 Age of differential GPS data record, Type 1 or Type 9. Null field when DGPS is

not used.

14 Reference station ID, ranging from 0000 through 1023. A null field when any

reference station ID is selected and no corrections are received.

15 The checksum data, always begins with *