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iG8 User Manual
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9.
Your device should now be selected and highlighted
on the device list:
Click on the Bluetooth Connect button (it looks like
a Bluetooth symbol with a connector on a cable.)
10.
Verify that your Base is selected as the ‘Device’:
then click on the ‘Receiver’ tab.
11.
The GPS Base Receiver configuration tab will be
shown:
Check to insure that the correct antenna “IGAIG8…”
is selected.
Enter the correct ‘Antenna Height’ (the distance
from the Ground Mark to the receiver head.)
If the Base receiver is mounted on a fixed height
pole, select ‘Vertical’ and enter the vertical distance
from the Ground Mark to the bottom of the antenna
as shown in
blue
above.
If the Base receiver is mounted on a tripod and you
can’t make a direct vertical measurement, select
‘Slant’ and enter the slanted tape distance from the
ground mark to the bottom of the blue band that
separates the white top from the gray bottom as
shown in
red
above.
Set the ‘Position Rate’ at 1 Hz.
Uncheck the ‘Use IMU’ (Tilt / Heading
Compensation) as this is a ‘Base’ receiver and you
should carefully level the head for all setups.
12.
Click on the ‘RTK’ tab:
(1) Set the ‘Message Type’ to ‘sCMR’.
The only two choices that provide full corrections for
all tracked satellites and signals are ‘sCMR’ and
‘RTCM3.2’. Choose ‘RTCM3.2’ if you are operating
with receivers that don’t support ‘sCMR’. Note that
