Monthly Archives: April 2013

New ADL Radio Firmware for PF500, PF800

New firmware is available for the ADL radios in PF500’s, PF800’s and ADL Venture Pros. The firmware is available on the Ashtech FTP site:

[ PF500 ]  [ PF800

This firmware addresses issues where the ADL radio module ‘hangs’ and becomes unresponsive. ADL Venture Pro receivers also suffer from this problem (if you are having problems with an ADL Venture Pro hanging, contact me directly.)

 

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Allegro’s Evidently Work with Mud

What can I say about this:

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Why would anybody clean them when they work just fine… 🙂

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Rubber Port Covers for Surveyor+

Wow, these are neat and they cost less than $5.00!

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And….they actually work too!

Give us a call if you need them or Surveyor+ Stylus. I bought a bunch of them.

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ProMark 800: GLONASS Fix Only

If you think the talk about ProMark (and ProFlex 800) fixing with GLONASS only is only hype, check this out:

In Carlson SurvCE V2.91 there is a new option “Use GLONASS Only”:

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Checking the box turns off US SV tracking:

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But the receiver still is able to compute a solution:

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I don’t know why you would ever want to do that, but I am convinced that it really does work!

 

 

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