Bruce Dawson
Active Member
Hello everyone,
Today I had a strange day with my gear. I was on a flat site, good sky, no real obstructions. I setup my system normally, base on a known point with radio link broadcasting corrections. All looked good, checked into another monument about 100 feet away, good check. I moved out into the open field to set some property corners and boom! About 200 feet away the radio link goes to yellow then to red. I check the frequency I am using and find it's crap (red), so I change to a cleaner blue one. My radio connection is green, then a few seconds later boom! Yellow and red. I walk back to the base and when I get about 100 feet away, all is green. I can find nothing amiss, so I shut everything down, recheck the frequencys and choose a blue one, then restart the base. All green. I move back out into the field and at about 200 feet I am back to red.
First, my system:
Triumph LS
Triumph 2
HPT 404BT
I have had something like this happen before when my battery was old and dying. I hooked up the HPT to my truck battery. No change, still limited to 100 feet or so. My portable battery is actually less than 6 months old. Yesterday I was on a much more challenging site and was tieing control mons a half mile away. The only thing that was different was that this morning I popped a fuse on my portable battery. I have had this happen before, and a new fuse made no difference.
Thanks for any help!
Bruce
Today I had a strange day with my gear. I was on a flat site, good sky, no real obstructions. I setup my system normally, base on a known point with radio link broadcasting corrections. All looked good, checked into another monument about 100 feet away, good check. I moved out into the open field to set some property corners and boom! About 200 feet away the radio link goes to yellow then to red. I check the frequency I am using and find it's crap (red), so I change to a cleaner blue one. My radio connection is green, then a few seconds later boom! Yellow and red. I walk back to the base and when I get about 100 feet away, all is green. I can find nothing amiss, so I shut everything down, recheck the frequencys and choose a blue one, then restart the base. All green. I move back out into the field and at about 200 feet I am back to red.
First, my system:
Triumph LS
Triumph 2
HPT 404BT
I have had something like this happen before when my battery was old and dying. I hooked up the HPT to my truck battery. No change, still limited to 100 feet or so. My portable battery is actually less than 6 months old. Yesterday I was on a much more challenging site and was tieing control mons a half mile away. The only thing that was different was that this morning I popped a fuse on my portable battery. I have had this happen before, and a new fuse made no difference.
Thanks for any help!
Bruce