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Giant Kiwi – Doing it with GPS
Many, many years ago I marked out a giant Kiwi using tape measures and grids. Now, thanks to my newly built RTK GPS base station, I decided to try it with GPS. I first had to get my…
Read More »New RTK GPS Base station
I’ve been running an RTK GPS Base station and feeding the data to rtk2go.com since early 2018. I was initially using a UBlox Neo-M8T which only worked on L1 frequencies, but earlier this year I upgraded it to…
Read More »U-Blox LEA-6H Precision
This is one of the many tests I’m doing to compare GPS/GNSS receivers. I’ve had this u-box LEA-6H unit for about five years. It was the GPS that came with the 3D Robotics ArduPilot that I’ve been using…
Read More »How precise is a circa 1999 Garmin eTrex?
This is the first of the tests I’m doing to compare GPS/GNSS receivers. I got my first GPS unit, a Garmin eTrex in 2001 and I used it to Geocache. It’s sat unused for over 12 years, but…
Read More »Measuring GPS (GNSS) Accuracy and Precision
With the recent technological advancements, I’ve recently become interested in RTK GPS and decided it would be fun to compare all the different GPS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receivers I own. I ultimately plan to see how they…
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