BaseAnywhere base station setup

BaseAnywhere is a feature that enables a base station to be set up anywhere on the job site, including on the roof of a vehicle, a range pole with a bipod, or any other stable platform. It does not require the base station to be set up on an established control point and greatly simplifies and quickens the ability to get started with an RTK GNSS survey on a site. This feature is generally intended for use by smaller contractors on sites that do not have existing survey control points.

It works by setting the base station into AutoBase HERE Always mode, which means that each time the base station is turned on or power-cycled, the base will determine its autonomous position and begin to broadcast corrections on the last used radio or Wi-Fi settings. This base station setup configuration must be used with the associated BaseAnywhere and Bench My Rover configuration to ensure that correct positions are being used, as the “Here” position of the base station will change each time the base is restarted.

To configure the base receiver to broadcast in BaseAnywhere mode, select BaseAnywhere in the Base position field when setting up the base station:

Once this mode for the base station is set there is no need to reconfigure the base station again unless there has been a 15-second restart of the receiver, you want to set up on a known control point, or use/change any of the other base setup options.

The base name when using BaseAnywhere defaults to AUTO000X after a restart of the base receiver, where X is the number of times that the base has been started. So, if the base station has been restarted five times, the base station name will be AUTO0005. The base name broadcast from the base station will not match what was originally entered in the Base Setup screen.