Fugro OmniSTAR 8300HP User manual

OmniSTAR 8300HP
User Manual
Issue 1.6, May 2006

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One-Year Limited Hardware Warranty
OmniSTAR B.V and its operating companies world-wide (OmniSTAR),
warrants this product to be free from defects in workmanship and material for a
period of one year from the date of original sale by OmniSTAR or its
authorised dealers, to the original purchaser or end user.
OmniSTAR reserves the right to repair and/or replace, at its option, any part or
parts found to be defective, provided such defects, in their opinion, are due to
faulty material or workmanship and are not caused by unauthorised or
improper repair or abuse, or normal wear. Purchaser shall be responsible for
shipping and insurance of the returned product for repair under this warranty.
OmniSTAR will pay shipping and insurance for the product's return to
purchaser provided that the product returned proves to be defective under this
limited warranty.
This warranty applies only to normal usage of the product. It does not apply to
units or electronic circuit boards defective due to improper installation or
handling. Physical damage due to lightning or other electrical discharge and
units subjected to fresh or salt-water contamination are not covered.
OmniSTAR reserves the right not to warrant the product if, upon request,
sufficient proof of recommended installation compliance as laid out in this
manual is not provided. No other warranties are expressed or implied. No other
warranties exist.
OmniSTAR assumes no responsibility for any consequential or incidental
losses or damages of any nature with respect to the use of this product.
REVISION HISTORY
Issue 1.0 May 2003 First Issue
Issue 1.1 June 2003
Issue 1.2 May 2004
Issue 1.3 November 2004
Issue 1.4 Januari 2006 MSV, AFSAT freq change
Issue 1.5
Issue 1.6 May 2006 OCSAT to Optus change
Manual Reference: OmniSTAR 8300HP User Manual
Copyright OmniSTAR B.V. 2004. No part of this manual can be reproduced
without the express permission of OmniSTAR B.V.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 2
ABOUT THIS MANUAL ..................................................................................... 2
SYSTEM FEATURES ........................................................................................ 2
RECEIVER FEATURES ..................................................................................... 3
Housing .................................................................................................... 3
Interface ................................................................................................... 3
INSTALLATION AND SET UP ........................................................................ 6
INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS ..................................................................... 6
COUNTER ELECTROMAGNETIC FORCE (CEMF)................................................ 7
CABLE INSTALLATION ..................................................................................... 8
ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND INFORMATION....................................................... 9
Strobes..................................................................................................... 9
Status Indicators....................................................................................... 9
Mounting Bracket.................................................................................... 10
ANTENNA LOCATION..................................................................................... 11
POWER SUPPLY REQUIREMENTS .................................................................. 11
OPERATING CONSIDERATIONS................................................................. 12
NUMBER OF VISIBLE SATELLITES.................................................................... 12
MULTIPATH.................................................................................................. 12
POSITION DILUTION OF PRECISION (PDOP) ................................................... 13
SATELLITE ELEVATIONS ................................................................................ 13
DIFFERENTIAL CORRECTIONS ........................................................................ 13
OPERATION ................................................................................................. 14
COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE RECEIVER ......................................................... 14
Serial Port Default Settings..................................................................... 14
GETTING STARTED....................................................................................... 15
Starting the Receiver .............................................................................. 15
INITIAL SETUP.............................................................................................. 16
APPENDIX A................................................................................................. 17
REAL-TIME KINEMATIC (RTK) ....................................................................... 17
APPENDIX B................................................................................................. 19
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ......................................................................... 19
PERFORMANCE.................................................................................... 19
ENVIRONMENTAL................................................................................. 19
POWER REQUIREMENTS .................................................................... 20
RF INPUT / LNA POWER OUTPUT....................................................... 20
INPUT / OUTPUT DATA INTERFACE ................................................... 20
Input / Output Connectors....................................................................... 21
Physical.................................................................................................. 21
Dimensions ............................................................................................ 22
Port Pin-Outs.......................................................................................... 23

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CABLES....................................................................................................... 25
Automobile Power Adapter Cable........................................................... 25
6-Pin Switchcraft to DB9 Serial Cable..................................................... 26
7-Pin Switchcraft to DB9 Serial Cable..................................................... 27
8-Pin Switchcraft to DB9 Serial Cable..................................................... 28
APPENDIX C................................................................................................. 29
COMMANDS ................................................................................................. 29
assignomni ............................................................................................. 29
com ........................................................................................................ 30
log .......................................................................................................... 32
psrdiffsource / rtksource ......................................................................... 35
reset ....................................................................................................... 35
saveconfig .............................................................................................. 35
DATA LOGS ................................................................................................. 36
APPENDIX D................................................................................................. 37
NMEA 0183 MESSAGE OPTIONS .................................................................. 37
NMEA 0183 MESSAGE FORMATS ................................................................. 38
ALM –GPS Almanac Data ............................................................... 38
GGA –GPS Fix Data..................................................................... 39
GLL –Geographic Position – Latitude/Longitude ............................. 40
GRS –GPS Range Residuals........................................................... 40
GSA –GPS DOP and Active Satellites............................................. 41
GST –GPS Pseudorange Noise Statistics ....................................... 42
GSV –GPS Satellites in View........................................................... 43
RMC –Recommended Minimum Specific GPS Data..................... 44
VTG –Course Over Ground and Ground Speed............................... 45
ZDA –Time and Date....................................................................... 46
OMNISTAR LOGS MESSAGE FORMATS........................................................... 47
OMNIHPPOS –OmniSTAR HP Position........................................... 47
OMNIINFO –OmniSTAR Configuration Information.......................... 50
OMNISTAT –OmniSTAR Status Information.................................... 52
32-Bit CRC ............................................................................................. 56
APPENDIX E................................................................................................. 57
ACRONYMS USED IN THIS MANUAL ................................................................. 57
APPENDIX F................................................................................................. 58
LIST OF COMMUNICATION SATELLITES ............................................................ 58
APPENDIX G ................................................................................................ 60
LIST OF REFERENCE STATIONS ...................................................................... 60
APPENDIX H................................................................................................. 64
GPS TIME OF WEEK TOWEEK AND TIME OF DAY (EXAMPLE) .......................... 64
CALENDAR DATE TO GPS TIME (E.G.13:30 HOURS, JANUARY 28, 2005) ......... 64

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APPENDIX I .................................................................................................. 65
RECEIVER SERVICE PROCEDURE .................................................................. 65
APPENDIX J ................................................................................................. 66
OMNISTAR RECEIVER PROBLEM REPORT FORM ........................................... 66
USER NOTES ............................................................................................... 67
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: 8300HP Back End Cap..................................................................... 4
Figure 2: Zener Diode Connected.................................................................... 7
Figure 3: 8300HP with Mounting Bracket....................................................... 10
Figure 4: Multipath......................................................................................... 13
Figure 5: 8300HP Dimensions....................................................................... 22
Figure 6: 8300HP Port Pin-Outs .................................................................... 23
Figure 7: Automobile Power Adapter Cable................................................... 25
Figure 8: 8300HP Power cable ...................................................................... 26
Figure 9: 6-pin Switchcraft DB9 Serial Cable................................................. 26
Figure 10: 8300HP 6-pin Serial Cable ........................................................... 27
Figure 11: 7-Pin Switchcraft to DB9 Serial Cable........................................... 27
Figure 12: 8300HP 7-pin Serial Cable ........................................................... 28
Figure 13: 8-Pin Switchcraft to DB9 Serial Cable........................................... 28
Figure 14: 8300HP 8-pin Serial Cable ........................................................... 29
Figure 15: Reference stations and coverage area for EA-SAT and AF-SAT. . 58
Figure 16: Reference Stations and coverage area for AM-SAT and AP-SAT. 58
Figure 17: Reference stations and coverage area for OPTUS and MSV........ 59
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: 8300HP Interface............................................................................... 5
Table 2: 8300HP Status Indicators .................................................................. 9
Table 3: Summary of position types............................................................... 18
Table 4: 8300HP PWR Port Pin-Out Descriptions ......................................... 23
Table 5: 8300HP COM1 Port Pin-Out Descriptions........................................ 23
Table 6: 8300HP COM2 Port Pin-Out Descriptions........................................ 24
Table 7: 8300HP COM3 Port Pin-Out Descriptions........................................ 24
Table 8: Figure 7 Reference numbers description ......................................... 25
Table 9: Figure 9 Reference numbers descriptions........................................ 26
Table 10: Figure 11 Reference numbers descriptions.................................... 27
Table 11: Figure 13 Reference numbers descriptions.................................... 28
Table 12: Description of the assignomni command ....................................... 29
Table 13: Description of COM command....................................................... 31
Table 14: Serial port identifiers for COM command. ...................................... 31
Table 15: Parity ............................................................................................. 32

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Table 16: Handshaking.................................................................................. 32
Table 17: Description of the LOG command.................................................. 34
Table 18: Description of the RESET command. ............................................ 35
Table 19: Available OmniSTAR specific logs................................................. 36
Table 20: NMEA 0183 messages available for the 8300HP........................... 37
Table 21: Description of the ALM message. .................................................. 38
Table 22: Description of the GGA message................................................... 39
Table 23: Description of the GLL message.................................................... 40
Table 24: Description of the GRS message................................................... 40
Table 25: Description of the GSA message................................................... 41
Table 26: Description of the GST message. .................................................. 42
Table 27: Description of the GSV message................................................... 43
Table 28: Description of the RMC message. ................................................. 44
Table 29: Description of the VTG message. ................................................. 45
Table 30: Description of the ZDA message. .................................................. 46
Table 31: Description of the OMNIHPPOS message..................................... 48
Table 32: Solution Status .............................................................................. 49
Table 33: Description of the OMNIINFO message......................................... 51
Table 34: Subscription types ......................................................................... 52
Table 35: OmniSTAR Signal Tracking Status ................................................ 54
Table 36: OmniSTAR HP/VBS Status Word.................................................. 54
Table 37: OmniSTAR HP Additional Status Word ......................................... 55
Table 38: World-wide satellite frequencies and baud rates ............................ 58
Table 39: Reference stations on EA-SAT ...................................................... 60
Table 40: Reference stations on AF-SAT ...................................................... 61
Table 41: Reference stations on AP-Sat........................................................ 61
Table 42: Reference stations on AM-Sat ....................................................... 62

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Introduction
About This Manual
This manual has been produced to assist the typical user with the installation
and operation of the OmniSTAR 8300HP DGPS Receiver.
System Features
The OmniSTAR 8300HP DGPS Receiver is part of the Fugro world-wide
DGPS Service. The Fugro service is a full-time differential GPS (DGPS)
broadcast system delivering corrections from an array of GPS reference
stations located around the globe. Reference stations provide industry
standard formatted corrections to Network Control Centres (NCC’s) at strategic
geographic locations, where the corrections are decoded, checked, and
repackaged in a highly efficient format for broadcast. The data is modulated
onto a RF carrier that is then up-converted for transmission to an L-band
communications satellite.
The signals are received at the user's location by an antenna, demodulated by
areceiver, and are made available, after selection of the desired individual
reference site's data set, as corrections for use in a GPS, differential-capable,
receiver.
The OmniSTAR 8300HP series of receivers support the following OmniSTAR®
services:
HP, this is the High Performance service where dual frequency GPS carrier
phase measurements are used in an intelligent and innovative way to create
wide area positioning results of unmatched accuracy and performance.
VBS,this is the Virtual Base Station service where single frequency GPS code
phase measurements are used to create RTCM corrections data optimised for
the users current position.

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Receiver Features
The OmniSTAR 8300HP receiver has the following features:
•24 channel “all-in-view” parallel tracking
•Pulse Aperture Correlator (PAC) technology
•Fast reacquisition
•Fully field-upgradeable firmware
•Low power consumption
•5Hz position output data
•10 Hz (optional)
•Voltage and temperature monitoring and reporting
The following models are available for the 8300HP:
•L1 only
•L1/L2
•L1/L2 plus OmniSTAR HP
•L1/L2 plus RTK (optional)
Housing
The 8300HP is housed in a enclosure to provide a complete receiver solution.
When connected to an antenna and a power source, the 8300HP is a fully
functioning DGPS/HP receiver.
The enclosure offers protection against environmental conditions and RF
interference. In addition, it provides an easy-to-use interface to the GPS card’s
data, power and status signals and a rugged, water, shock and vibration
resistant housing for outdoor applications.
Interface
The 8300HP provides the following:
•Arugged, environmentally-sealed enclosure
•3serial ports with Switchcraft-brand connectors
•GPS antenna and power ports
•Auxiliary strobe signals for status and synchronization
•Indicator to provide status information

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The following accessories are included with the 8300HP:
•1automotive power adapter cable
•3straight serial port cables
•GPS antenna and power ports
•ACD containing PC utilities and product documentation
For technical specifications on the 8300HP, please see
Figure 1: 8300HP Back End Cap