Re: news-to-me sparkfun product and reciever

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:

>> As for $700, I'm not sparkfun, but this is not just F9P, but nice box,
>> ESP, wifi antenna, coax to antenna, triband antenna, charger and
>> cables. Plus firmware support.
>
> If you want a fixed RTK base station, then $700 is fair.  But that
> is a rare use ase.  Most people doing base/rover need both to be
> mobile.

Agreed.  The RTK Express, out of stock but $550ish, is
case/battery/display/F9P/ESP/firmware.  again more than the parts, but
really easy to deal with.

>> The firmware support is key.  They actually respond to bug reports and
>> fix things, plus it's open source.
>
> I assume the base station is FOSS, not the Unicore GNSS chip.

I meant the ESP32 code.   Unicore/u-blox seem quite opaque.

> I'll keep my eye out for a cheal Unicore module now that you pointed to
> the doc.

always good to have competition.