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South Georgia | All the talk I hear about RTK is that it only works line-of-sight between the base station and the tractor, and that it flat can't penetrate trees. I'm getting more and more interested all the time, except that this line-of-sight stuff is a bigger obstacle than the 'six-mile' or whatever range. I'm in south Georgia, and we've got more trees than fields here. My fields are all within a six mile radius, but I've got some individual fields that the base station would have to be moved two or three times to stay line-of-sight. How are all the rest of you RTK folks doing all this? Y'all got no trees at all? I just don't think I understand, because I just flat don't see how it can work here.
Please enlighten me.
Adrian
edit: This is a map from last year off of my Envisio. This is not an atypical field here. Twenty-five acres, bordered on all sides with trees, including the little 'fingers' that reach out into the field. We have another hundred acres within 3/4 miles of this one, that to keep the base station line-of-sight to the tractor would take at least three or four moves. For reference, the swath width on the map is sixty feet.
Edited by Adrian 3/17/2007 19:25
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RTK...Line of sight?
