Phoenix Stonex S4II, Collection Manual

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5. If the Rover is FLOAT, but never fixes, there could be high multipath or canopy at the base or rover.
6. Is the Latency less than 4 seconds? If the Latency builds up to values larger than 5 seconds there is probably
someone else on the same UHF radio frequency or the UHF radio signal is not strong enough to reach the rover
dependably.
7. Check the ‘SATView’ under ‘Monitor/Skyplot’. A satellite distribution in all 4 quadrants is good and the receiver
should FIX within 30 seconds if in open sky. Hower, a skyplot where all of the satellites are in one quadrant, or the
satellite count is very low, just won’t be sufficient to get a Fixed solution
6 Other Preferred Data Collector Settings
Your data collector is connected to the RTK head by Bluetooth. When/if the data collector goes into Standby, this
communication link is shutdown.
When the data collector is brought out of Standby by briefly pressing the power key, it is supposed to automatically
reconnect to the head. Depending on the state of communication before the data collector disconnects, it may not
be possible to reconnect to the head without doing a full power cycle on the head.
6.1 Manually Reconnecting
If the automatic reconnect does not work, you can manually ask SurvCE to reconnect to the RTK head. This is very
useful after changing the battery mid-day. From the main SurvCE menu click on the ‘Hard Hat’ in the upper left
corner, then click on ‘Reconnect’. SurvCE will re-initialize the Bluetooth communication link between the data
collector and the RTK head.
6.2 Set to NEVER Standby
The best solution to this problem is to NOT ALLOW the data collector to enter standby. Turning off the backlight is
okay, but you should configure the data collector to NEVER enter standby.
Here is How:
1. On the S4II Data Collector, click on “Start” (windows flag), click on “Settings”, then “Power”, and then at the top right
click on “Advanced”