A couple of people have asked what the RTK Beacon of the new Buoybots looks like.
Well this is it:-
You’ll notice that during a race session, it has to be absolutely firmly in place for RTK to work properly, ….though we shall take it down after each day’s racing.
I have one on my house(!), and when offered a choice of aluminium or steel pole, the answer from the engineer was, “use steel every time!”.
RTK’s main application to date (I understand) is in the Construction Industry – especially for accurately locating under-ground assets…. like when they dig up your High Street. There is plenty of information about it online, but here is a quick item
https://pointonenav.com/news/what-is-rtk-real-time-kinematic/
You would have to be a very sharp eyed member of Datchet Radio Sailing to spot that the controller looks like it is a new casing. As can happen to anyone, if you get a crack in it… you just print another one.
I really have to learn more about this 3D printing idea!…..
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