Carlson BRx7 User manual

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USER MANUAL

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Contents
Chapter 1: Introducon ................................................................................... 5
Overview ..........................................................................................................5
Product Overview ............................................................................................6
Key Features ..................................................................................................10
What’s Included in Your Kit ...........................................................................11
Chapter 2: Installaon ....................................................................................13
Overview ........................................................................................................13
Ports and Connecons ...................................................................................14
Installing/Connecng the BRx7 ......................................................................15
Installing UHF Antennas .................................................................................18
Installing the BRx7 on a Tribrach ...................................................................18
Installing the BRx7 on a Range Pole ...............................................................19
Connecng to a Power Source .......................................................................20
Connecng to an External Device ..................................................................21
Powering the BRx7 On/O .............................................................................22
Inserng and Removing the MicroSD Card/SIM Card ....................................23
Chapter 3: Setup and Conguraon ................................................................25
Overview ........................................................................................................25
Control Panel Overview .................................................................................26
Seng up the BRx7 ........................................................................................27
Bluetooth Communicaon ............................................................................28
Carlson WebUI ..............................................................................................29

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Firmware Update ...........................................................................................51
How to Download Stac Data ........................................................................54
Appendix A: Troubleshoong .........................................................................55
Overview ........................................................................................................55
Troubleshoong .............................................................................................56
Appendix B: Technical Specicaons ...............................................................59
Overview ........................................................................................................59
Technical Specicaons ..................................................................................60
Appendix C: Radio Mode/QR Code..................................................................65
Overview ........................................................................................................65
Radio Mode ...................................................................................................66
QR Code ........................................................................................................68

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This User Guide provides informaon to help you quickly set up your BRx7
GNSS Smart Antenna. You can download this manual from the Carlson
website at www.carlsonsw.com.
Topic Page
Product Overview 6
Key Features 10
What’s Included in Your Kit 11
Overview
Introducon
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction

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BRx7 User Manual
The BRx7 is an all‐new mul‐frequency, mul‐GNSS smart antenna. The
BRx7 provides robust performance and high precision in a compact and
rugged package. With mulple wireless communicaons ports and an open
GNSS interface, the BRx7 can be used in a variety of operang modes.
Use the BRx7 as a precise base staon for sending RTK to your exisng
rover network. Turn BRx7 into a lightweight and easy‐to‐use rover by
connecng it to your base via UHF radio or cellular network. Use the built‐
in web user interface (WebUI) to control, manage, and upgrade the BRx7
with new rmware and acvaons. BRx7 is Athena®‐enabled and Atlas®‐
capable.
Powered by the Phantom™ 40 OEM board, the BRx7 supports 800+
channels and can simultaneously track all satellite signals including GPS,
GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS and NavIC (IRNSS), making them robust
and reliable.
BRx7 comes standard with two long‐life lithium baeries providing up
to 12 hours of operaon. The baeries are hot‐swappable, and may
be changed while working, maximizing your eciency and Return on
Investment (ROI).
The BRx7 combines Athena GNSS engine and Atlas L‐band correcon
technologies with a sophiscated WebUI, oering an unparalleled level of
customer‐friendly performance.
The ruggedized antenna is designed for very challenging environments and
meets IP67‐standard requirements.
The BRx7 is the ideal posioning system to use in land or marine survey,
GIS, mapping, and construcon. Together with SureFix™ advanced
processor, the BRx7 delivers high‐delity RTK quality informaon that
results in guaranteed precision with virtually 100% reliability.
Product
Overview
Product Overview

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The BRx7 receiver is powered by the Athena RTK technology. The BRx7
provides state‐of‐the‐art RTK performance when receiving correcons
from a stac base staon or network RTK correcon system. With
mulple connecvity opons, the BRx7 allows for RTK correcons to be
received over radio, cell modem, Wi‐Fi, Bluetooth, or serial connecon.
BRx7 delivers cenmeter‐level accuracy with virtually instantaneously
inializaon mes and cung‐edge robustness in challenging
environments.
Athena RTK is next‐generaon RTK engine designed to support all available
constellaons and takes advantage of available new signals. Athena was
designed to seamlessly integrate into exisng product porolios and
supports all major industry correcon formats and standards.
Athena RTK can be added to the BRx7 as an acvaon.
Athena RTK has the following benets:
• Improved Inializaon me ‐ Performing inializaons in less than 15
seconds at beer than 99.9% of the me.
• Robustness in dicult operang environments ‐ Extremely high
producvity under the most aggressive of geographic and landscape‐
oriented environments.
• Performance on long baselines ‐ Industry‐leading posion stability for
long baseline applicaons.
Product
Overview
Product Overview

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BRx7 User Manual
The Atlas system delivers world‐wide cenmeter‐level correcon data over
L‐band communicaon satellites. BRx7 users can experience sub‐decimeter
posioning performance anywhere on earth, without the need to be near
a GNSS or communicaon infrastructure.
With Atlas, the posioning accuracy does not degrade as a funcon of
distance to a base staon, as the data content is not composed of a single
base staon’s informaon, but an enre network’s informaon.
Atlas L‐band is Hemisphere’s industry leading correcon service, which
can be added to the BRx7 as a subscripon. Atlas L‐band has the following
benets:
• Posioning accuracy ‐ Compeve posioning accuracies down to
4cm RMS in certain applicaons.
• Posioning sustainability ‐ Cung edge posion quality maintenance
in the absence of correcon signals, using Hemisphere’s patented
technology.
• Scalable service levels ‐ Capable of providing virtually any accuracy,
precision, and repeatability level in the 4cm to 50cm range.
• Convergence me ‐ Industry‐leading convergence mes of 10‐40
minutes.
• Global Ionospheric Model ‐ Real‐me ionospheric acvity and data
is sent to the receiver and allows Atlas‐capable devices to adjust
accordingly, providing excellent convergence performance.
WARNING
Your BRx7 is equipped with a UHF radio. If you choose to use the radio, you
may need to obtain a license.
Atlas L‐band
Product Overview

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aRTK is an innovave feature available in Carlson’s BRx7 Smart Antenna
that greatly migates the impact of land‐based communicaon instability.
Powered by Hemisphere’s Atlas L‐band system service, aRTK provides an
addional layer of communicaon redundancy to RTK users, assuring that
producvity is not impacted by intermient data connecvity.
BRx7 receives the aRTK augmentaon correcon data over satellite,
while also receiving the land‐ based RTK correcon data. With this, the
receiver internally operates with two sources of RTK correcon, creang
one addional layer of correcon redundancy as compared to typical RTK
systems.
Once this process is established (a few seconds), the receiver can operate
in the absence of either correcon source. The receiver can connue
generang RTK posions if the land‐based RTK correcon source becomes
unavailable for a period of me.
SureFix is an addional processor that runs in combinaon with the RTK
engine and provides high delity quality indicators to users.
The SureFix processor takes several inputs, such as GNSS data, data
preprocessing results, and generated RTK soluons. Using all the available
informaon and funconal and stochasc analysis methods, SureFix
determines the quality of the current RTK engine soluon.
Shown as SureFix quality indicators, these indicators are combined with
the RTK soluon before being provided to the user. At the end of the
process, the user has access to high delity informaon about the quality
of the RTK soluon.
aRTK Posion
Aiding
SureFix™ RTK
Posion
Product Overview

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BRx7 User Manual
Key Features
The key features of the BRx7 Smart Antenna include:
• Mul‐frequency GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, IRNSS, and
Atlas Lband
• Long‐range RTK baselines up to 50 km with fast acquision mes
• UHF (400 MHz & 900 MHz), cellular, Bluetooth, and Wi‐Fi wireless
communicaon
• Athena GNSS engine providing best‐in‐class RTK performance
• Internal sensor corrects collected point coordinates to within 2 cm
Key features

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What’s included
in your kit
As shown in Table 1‐1 below, the BRx7 is available in a variety of kits, with
supplementary products sold as “controller/opon kits”, “accessory kits” or
simply as separate accessories. Contents can change without prior noce.
Check the ocial price list to conrm contents.
Important: Charge your Li‐Ion baery upon receipt of shipment. Accord‐
ing to the 2017 IATA Dangerous Goods Regulaons and supplemental IATA
Lithium Baery Guidance, baeries must be charged to less than 30% to
meet internaonal air freight requirements.
Table 1‐1: BRx7 parts list
Main Kits Part Number Quanty
BRx7 Power Cable to Rcvr & DB‐9 Serial 8030.064.027 1
BRx7 Serial Cable (5‐pin) 8030.064.028 1
BRx7 GPRS Antenna (SMA) 8030.043.006 1
BRx7 UHF Antenna 8030.042.007 1
s Series BP‐5S Baery 8030.060.005 2
Baery Charger Adapter 8030.060.004 1
Baery Charger 8030.060.007 1
Car Charger Adapter 8030.064.027 1
Quick Release 8030.085.002 1
Carry Case with Measuring Tape 8030.080.067 1
External UHF Antenna Bracket Kit ‐ 1
BRx7 Power Cable (Alligator Clips) 8030.064.036 1
What’s Included in Your Kit

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Chapter 2 provides instrucon on how to install your BRx7 Smart Antenna.
Topic Page
Ports and Connecons 14
Installing/Connecng the BRx7 15
Installing UHF Antennas 18
Installing the BRx7 on a Tribrach 18
Installing the BRx7 on a Range Pole 19
Connecng to a Power Source 20
Connecng to an External Device 21
Powering the BRx7 On/O 22
Inserng and Removing the MicroSD Card/SIM Card 23
Overview
Introducon
Contents
Chapter 2: Installation

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BRx7 User Manual
Ports and Connecons
All ports and connecons are located on the boom of the unit, as shown
in Figure 2‐1. Table 2‐1 provides addional informaon about each port/
connecon.
Figure 2‐1: BRx7 ports and connectors
Table 2‐1: BRx7 ports and connecons
Ports and
Connecons
Main Kits What to connect
7‐pin Diagnosc Port (LEMO) Diagnosc cable for serial or USB
5‐pin Power/Data Port (LEMO) External Power, data, and radio devices
UHF Antenna Connector External UHF antenna
Mounng hole Pole or tripod mount
5/8” Mounng hole
Audio Speaker
UHF Antenna Connector
7‐pin Diagnosc Port
5‐pin Power/Data Port

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Installing/Connecng the BRx7
The BRx7 comes standard with two long‐life lithium baeries (see What’s
Included in Your Kit) providing up to 12 hours of operaon. The baeries
are hot‐swappable and may be changed while your work.
To install the baery, slide each latch so that the lock is showing.
Figure 2‐2: Baery latches
Installing
baeries

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Installing/Connecng the BRx7
Press the buon on the side to open the baery compartment and remove
the door as shown in Figure 2‐3.
Place the baery into the compartment. Take care to ensure the contacts
on the baery are on the same side as the contacts on the receiver. The
baery will t down onto the notch. Slide the baery forward unl it clicks
and locks into place (Figure 2‐4).
Installing
baeries
Installing
baeries
Figure 2‐4: Installed baery
Figure 2‐3: Baery compartment door removed

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Installing/Connecng the BRx7
To close the door cover, ensure the tab is unlocked. Slide the latch to cover
the lock and lock the door (Figure 2‐5).
Figure 2‐5: Closed and locked baery compartment door
Installing
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Installing the BRx7 on a Tribrach
Installing UHF Antennas
To install the external UHF antenna of the BRx7, locate the UHF antenna
(8030.042.007) from the kit list under What’s Included in Your Kit.
Insert the connector end of the UHF antenna and rotate clockwise to
secure the antenna to the BRx7.
Installing UHF
Antennas
The BRx7 mounts ush to the tribrach by securing the 5/8‐11” female
metal mounng poron of the BRx7 to the standard 5/8‐11” male poron
of the tribrach. Hand‐ghten (35‐40 in‐lbs. of torque) to secure the BRx7
onto the mount in a clockwise rotaon.
Installing the
BRx7 on a
tribrach
Figure 2‐6: Installing BRx7 on a tribrach

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Installing the BRx7 on a Range Pole
Use the standard 5/8‐11” mount on the boom of the BRx7 to secure the
unit to a eld standard 5/8‐11” range pole.
The BRx7 should be placed carefully on the range pole to ensure cross‐
threading does not occur while rotang the unit in a clockwise direcon.
Hand‐ghten (35‐40 in‐lbs. of torque) to secure the unit.
Installing the
BRx7 on a
range pole
Figure 2‐7: Range pole installaon

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Connecng to a Power Source
The BRx7 has two main power sources. The rst power source is the
internal removable baery described in the earlier poron of this chapter.
The second power source is the external power cable (Part Number
8030.064.027).
The 5‐pin (LEMO) connector allows 9 to 24V of power into the BRx7.
Connecng to a
power source
Figure 2‐8: External power connector