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One-Year Limited Hardware Warranty
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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.
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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.
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units subjected to fresh or salt-water contamination are not covered.
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sufficient proof of recommended installation compliance as laid out in this
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REVISION HISTORY
Issue 0.1 October 2006 First Issue
Issue 0.2 October 2006 Minor changes
Issue 0.3 March 2007 Major overhaul: checked and corrected
specifications, added View8300 /
Viewall, added command set
Issue 1.0 March 2007 Comments on version 0.3
incorporated. First official release.
Issue 1.01 March 2007 Textual changes
Issue 1.1 March 2007 Added description of log header and
firmware upgrade procedure
Issue 1.11 May 2007 Added userdatum commands and
command for logging debug-data
Issue 1.12 October 2008 Corrected information about the
‘EVENT’ marker inputs.
Issue 1.13 September 2009 Changed EASAT to EUSAT and
modified frequencies
Issue 1.14 October 2010 Added OMNIUSEGLONASS ENABLE
command
Added Omnistar IP (NTRIP Info

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION.............................................................................................2
A BOUT T HIS M ANUAL .....................................................................................2
S YSTEM F EATURES ........................................................................................2
R ECEIVER F EATURES .....................................................................................3
Housing....................................................................................................3
Interface...................................................................................................4
INSTALLATION AND SET UP ........................................................................6
I NSTALLATION C ONSIDERATIONS .....................................................................6
C OUNTER E LECTROMAGNETIC F ORCE (CEMF)................................................7
C ABLE I NSTALLATION .....................................................................................8
A DDITIONAL F EATURES AND I NFORMATION .......................................................9
Strobes.....................................................................................................9
Status Indicators.......................................................................................9
Mounting Bracket....................................................................................10
A NTENNA L OCATION .....................................................................................11
P OWER S UPPLY R EQUIREMENTS ..................................................................11
OPERATING CONSIDERATIONS.................................................................12
N UMBER OF VISIBLE SATELLITES ....................................................................12
M ULTIPATH ..................................................................................................12
P OSITION D ILUTION OF P RECISION (PDOP)...................................................13
S ATELLITE ELEVATIONS ................................................................................13
D IFFERENTIAL CORRECTIONS ........................................................................13
OPERATION.................................................................................................14
C OMMUNICATIONS WITH THE R ECEIVER .........................................................14
Serial Port Default Settings.....................................................................14
G ETTING S TARTED .......................................................................................15
Starting the Receiver..............................................................................15
I NITIAL SETUP ..............................................................................................16
S ETTING UP DATA OUTPUT ............................................................................17
S EEDING THE RECEIVER ...............................................................................18
Using a stored seed position ..................................................................18
Entering a known position manually........................................................18
APPENDIX A.................................................................................................20
T ECHNICAL S PECIFICATIONS .........................................................................20
Performance...........................................................................................20
Environmental ........................................................................................20
Power Requirements..............................................................................21
RF input / LNA power output...................................................................21
Input / Output data interface...................................................................21
Input / Output connectors .......................................................................21
Physical..................................................................................................22
Dimensions ............................................................................................23

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Port Pin-Outs..........................................................................................24
C ABLES .......................................................................................................26
Automobile Power Adapter Cable...........................................................26
Null modem Cable..................................................................................27
Straight through DB9 Serial Cable..........................................................28
USB Serial Cable....................................................................................29
Strobe port cable....................................................................................30
APPENDIX B.................................................................................................31
V IEW 8300...................................................................................................31
V IEW A LL .....................................................................................................42
ViewAll main screen...............................................................................42
APPENDIX C.................................................................................................52
C OMMANDS .................................................................................................52
ANTENNAPOWER.................................................................................52
ASSIGNLBAND......................................................................................53
AUTH .....................................................................................................54
COM.......................................................................................................55
DGPSTIMEOUT.....................................................................................57
ECUTOFF ..............................................................................................57
FRESET.................................................................................................59
GGAQUALITY........................................................................................60
HPSEED ................................................................................................61
HPSTATICINIT.......................................................................................62
LOG........................................................................................................63
MARKCONTROL....................................................................................65
MODEL ..................................................................................................66
NVMRESTORE......................................................................................66
OMNIUSEGLONASS .............................................................................68
PPSCONTROL.......................................................................................68
PSRDIFFSOURCE / RTKSOURCE........................................................69
RESET...................................................................................................69
SAVECONFIG........................................................................................70
UNLOG ..................................................................................................71
UNLOGALL............................................................................................72
USERDATUM.........................................................................................72
D ATA L OGS .................................................................................................74
L OG MESSAGE HEADERS ...............................................................................74
BESTPOS ..............................................................................................76
Message ID: 42 Log Type: Synch.......................................................76
COMCONFIG.........................................................................................77
LBANDINFO...........................................................................................79
LBANDSTAT..........................................................................................79
LOGLIST................................................................................................79
MARKPOS, MARK2POS........................................................................81
MARKTIME, MARK2TIME......................................................................83
OMNIHPPOS .........................................................................................84
PSRDOP................................................................................................84

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PSRPOS................................................................................................85
PSRVEL.................................................................................................86
RXCONFIG ............................................................................................87
RXHWLEVELS.......................................................................................89
RXSTATUS............................................................................................90
TIME.......................................................................................................94
VALIDMODELS......................................................................................96
VERSION...............................................................................................96
APPENDIX D.................................................................................................99
NMEA 0183 M ESSAGE O PTIONS ..................................................................99
NMEA 0183 M ESSAGE F ORMATS ...............................................................100
ALM – GPS Almanac Data...................................................................100
GGA – GPS Fix Data............................................................................101
GGALONG – GPS Fix Data Extra Precision and Undulation ................102
GGARTK – GPS Fix Data Extra Precision without Undulation..............103
GLL – Geographic Position – Latitude/Longitude..................................104
GRS – GPS Range Residuals..............................................................104
GSA – GPS DOP and Active Satellites.................................................105
GST – GPS Pseudorange Noise Statistics...........................................106
GSV – GPS Satellites in View .............................................................. 107
RMB – Navigation Information..............................................................108
RMC – Recommended Minimum Specific GPS Data ...........................109
VTG – Course Over Ground and Ground Speed ..................................110
ZDA – Time and Date...........................................................................110
O MNI STAR LOGS MESSAGE FORMATS .........................................................111
OMNIHPPOS – OmniSTAR HP Position.........................................111
LBANDINFO – OmniSTAR Configuration Information.....................113
LBANDSTAT – OmniSTAR Status Information ...............................115
32-Bit CRC...........................................................................................118
APPENDIX E...............................................................................................119
U PGRADING THE RECEIVER FIRMWARE .........................................................119
APPENDIX F...............................................................................................124
A CRONYMS USED IN THIS MANUAL ...............................................................124
APPENDIX F...............................................................................................125
GPS T IME OF W EEK T O W EEK AND T IME OF D AY .........................................125
Example: 511200 s...............................................................................125
C ALENDAR D ATE TO GPS T IME ...................................................................125
Example: 14:30 hours, March 5, 2007..................................................125
APPENDIX G ..............................................................................................126
R ECEIVER S ERVICE P ROCEDURE ................................................................126
APPENDIX H............................................................................................... 127
O MNI STAR R ECEIVER P ROBLEM R EPORT F ORM .........................................127

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USER NOTES.............................................................................................128
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: 8305HP Back End............................................................................5
Figure 2: Zener Diode Connected....................................................................7
Figure 3: 8305HP with Mounting Brackets (dimensions in millimetres)..........10
Figure 4: Multipath.........................................................................................12
Figure 5: 8305HP Dimensions (all dimensions are in millimetres). ................23
Figure 6: Automobile Power Adapter Cable...................................................26
Figure 7: null modem DB9 Serial Cable.........................................................27
Figure 8: Straight through DB9 Serial Cable..................................................28
Figure 9: USB to DB9 serial cable (dimensions in millimetres)......................29
Figure 10: Strobe port cable..........................................................................30
Figure 11 View8300 communication settings.................................................31
Figure 12 View8300 main screen ..................................................................32
Figure 13 Receiver COM port selection.........................................................33
Figure 14 Receiver COM port settings...........................................................33
Figure 15 View8300 Configuration menu.......................................................34
Figure 16 DGPS service configuration...........................................................35
Figure 17 Datum configuration.......................................................................36
Figure 18 Select COM port to be configured for output..................................36
Figure 19 NMEA message output selection...................................................37
Figure 20 1PPS control .................................................................................37
Figure 21 Receiver parameter configuration..................................................38
Figure 22 Setting seed point..........................................................................39
Figure 23 Current position and StdDev as seed point....................................39
Figure 24 View8300 terminal window.............................................................40
Figure 25 Sky plot and scatter plot view ........................................................41
Figure 26 View8300 about screen .................................................................41
Figure 27 Connection screen Figure 28 ViewAll main screen....................42
Figure 29 Position screen (1) Figure 30 Position screen (2)......................42
Figure 31 Position screen (3) Figure 32 Position screen (4)......................43
Figure 33 Position screen (5) Figure 34 Position screen (6)......................43
Figure 35 Position screen (7) Figure 36 Hardware information..................44
Figure 37 VBS subscription Figure 38 HP subscription .............................44
Figure 39 DGPS/HP info................................................................................45
Figure 40 Sat Configuration Figure 41 Receiver parameters.....................45
Figure 42 COM1 configuration Figure 43 COM2 configuration ..................46
Figure 44 COM3 configuration.......................................................................46
Figure 45 Logging start screen Figure 46 σ
z
..............................................47
Figure 47 Satellite info Figure 48 Date and time........................................47
Figure 49 Speed and filtering Figure 50 Project name...............................48
Figure 51 Surveyor name Figure 52 Antenna height .................................48
Figure 53 Internal memory Figure 54 Storage card memory......................49
Figure 55 Main settings Figure 56 Filter settings.......................................49
Figure 57 Kickstart point................................................................................50

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Figure 58 Terminal window Figure 59 HP Debug logging..........................50
Figure 60 ViewAll Exit....................................................................................51
Figure 61 WinLoad main screen..................................................................119
Figure 62 Firmware file select......................................................................120
Figure 63 Winload main screen - flash file loaded.......................................120
Figure 64 Winload searching for card..........................................................121
Figure 65 Initializing communication............................................................121
Figure 66 Entering the authorization code ...................................................122
Figure 67 Erasing memory and writing data to the receiver.........................122
Figure 68 Upgrade finished..........................................................................123
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: 8305HP Interface...............................................................................5
Table 2: 8305HP I/O port pin-out descriptions.................................................9
Table 3: 8305HP PWR port pin-out descriptions............................................24
Table 4: 8305HP serial port pin-out descriptions ...........................................24
Table 5: 8305HP I/O port pin-out description.................................................25
Table 6: Figure 6 Reference numbers description .........................................26
Table 7: null modem pin layout......................................................................27
Table 8: Figure 8 Reference numbers descriptions........................................28
Table 9: Figure 9 Reference numbers description .........................................29
Table 10: Strobe port cable layout.................................................................30
Table 11: Description of the assignlband command ......................................53
Table 12 Description of the auth command ...................................................54
Table 13: Description of COM command.......................................................55
Table 14: Serial port identifiers for COM command .......................................56
Table 15: Parity.............................................................................................56
Table 16: Handshaking..................................................................................56
Table 17 Description of the ECUTOFF command..........................................58
Table 18 Description of the FRESET command............................................59
Table 19 Position types.................................................................................60
Table 20 Description of the HPSEED command............................................61
Table 21 Description of the HPSTATICINIT command..................................62
Table 22: Description of the LOG command..................................................64
Table 23: Description of the MARKCONTROL command..............................65
Table 24: Description of the MODEL command.............................................66
Table 25: Description of the PPSCONTROL command.................................68
Table 26: Description of the RESET command. ............................................69
Table 27: Description of the UNLOG command.............................................71
Table 28: Description of the UNLOGALL command. .....................................72
Table 29: Description of the UNLOGALL command. .....................................73
Table 30: Available OmniSTAR specific logs.................................................74
Table 31: Log header structure......................................................................75
Table 32: GPS time status.............................................................................76
Table 33 Bestpos log description...................................................................77
Table 34 Comconfig log description...............................................................78
Table 35: Interface modes.............................................................................79

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Table 36 Loglist log description .....................................................................80
Table 37 Markpos and Mark2pos log description...........................................82
Table 38 Marktime and Mark2time log description.........................................83
Table 39 PSRDop log description..................................................................85
Table 40 PSRpos log description...................................................................86
Table 41 PSRvel log description....................................................................87
Table 42 RXConfig log description.................................................................89
Table 43 RXHWlevels log description............................................................90
Table 44 Receiver error.................................................................................91
Table 45 Receiver status...............................................................................92
Table 46 Auxiliary 1 status.............................................................................93
Table 47 Auxiliary 2 status.............................................................................93
Table 48 Auxiliary 3 status.............................................................................93
Table 49 RXStatus log description.................................................................94
Table 50 Time log description........................................................................95
Table 51 Validmodels log description ............................................................96
Table 52 Model designators...........................................................................97
Table 53 Time log description........................................................................98
Table 54: NMEA 0183 messages available for the 8305HP...........................99
Table 55: Description of the ALM message.................................................100
Table 56: Description of the GGA message.................................................101
Table 57: Description of the GGALONG message.......................................102
Table 58: Description of the GGARTK message..........................................103
Table 59: Description of the GLL message..................................................104
Table 60: Description of the GRS message.................................................104
Table 61: Description of the GSA message.................................................105
Table 62: Description of the GST message.................................................106
Table 63: Description of the GSV message.................................................107
Table 64: Description of the RMB message.................................................108
Table 65: Description of the RMC message. ...............................................109
Table 66: Description of the VTG message................................................110
Table 67: Description of the ZDA message. ................................................110
Table 68: Solution Status ............................................................................111
Table 69: Description of the OMNIHPPOS message...................................112
Table 70: Description of the LBANDINFO message....................................113
Table 71: Subscription types .......................................................................114
Table 72: Description of the LBANDSTAT message....................................115
Table 73: OmniSTAR Signal Tracking Status..............................................116
Table 74: OmniSTAR VBS Status Word/HP Status Word 1........................116
Table 75: OmniSTAR HP Additional Status Word .......................................116
Table 76: OmniSTAR HP/XP Status Word .................................................117