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Southern Illinois | So is Deere shutting down in house production by the NavCom division for their own receivers? That is an interesting turn of events if so.
Deere bought NavCom years ago when they were the top of the line in RTK algorithms. They also had their own satellite correction service that competed with Omnistar. However NavCom used the JPL server software to calculate their L1 and L2 corrections. SF1 was a better version of an SBAS signal when none existed yet. SF2 contained dual frequency corrections.
A few years ago when SF3 was started, Deere switched from using the JPL software to their own software developed in house at NavCom. This led to them eventually turning off the original SF1 and SF2 messages and switched to new variants. This also is when they chose not to update the iTC and Gen2 to use the new messages in order to push the customer into buying new 6000 receivers.
The 6000 was supposed to be better but in fact used the same Sapphire gnss processor that the 3000 used. All they did was add decoding of the higher level correction messages they sell as SF3. The SF3 has all constilations data but the 6000 could only use GPS and GLONASS.
The 7000 was the first use of their newer gnss processor that can use all current constilations and SF3 messages for all constilations.
If they are switching suppliers then this means they are shutting down NavCom product production.
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