Gps for field use on phone

caterpillar guy · Feb 4, 2019

I was just in to the local phone place. I asked about the possibility of having the use of GPS guidance on a stupid phone. There was a few sites that have just that available to use for this. I was looking at this as an alternative to the conventional method and as a second unit when needed.
They tell me my current phone is due to be unusable come next December, when they discontinue 3G capability. So since mine is having problems, I thought if I have to go to a stupid model. I would like to see about this possibility for spring work as a tool to get more service out of mine. We could also benefit from a second unit for planting,spraying,and spreading fertilizer.
Give the good bad and ugly on this. Thanks.

Larry EC-OH · Feb 4, 2019

Well, as we say, how accurate do you want to be?
Currently in phones the accuracy is about 16 feet.
New chips are due out next year that may reduce this to slightly less than a foot. However, there are many other factors in this as well depending on where you are geographically. You will need a "clear Sky" for a minimum of 6 satellites to achieve anything close to this.

I suspect that these new phones with the super duper GPS will be very pricey.

Larry

jeffcat · Feb 4, 2019

G-5 is only a few months away. Sprint will be one of the first providers. Far as I have heard Japan already has it and is screaming fast.

Philip d · Feb 4, 2019

I use the Farmsprayer app and it works good for spreading fertilizer or spraying. Agriplot app is good for mapping fields.

caterpillar guy · Feb 4, 2019

Ok so Phillip I an going to guess you are spreading closer than within the 16 feet, that Larry is talking about.
Larry Have you tried this method? I would like to be with in closer to a couple of feet fro spraying. For fertilizer I could either just narrow my swath a bit or consider it close enough. I do realize the idea of GPS guidance is to get more accurate than that.

sotxbill · Feb 4, 2019

(quoted from post at 19:43:10 02/04/19) G-5 is only a few months away. Sprint will be one of the first providers. Far as I have heard Japan already has it and is screaming fast.

Lots of the 5g standards are NOT set yet. HOWEVER, the faster data portion is being built out by all the carriers,,, known as 5gE.. The E means emerging or early. Some of the better phones out there today are already using the faster data as an early part of the 5gE spec although they were sold as 4g phones. All of the carriers are moving along this route. Magazines articles report that the US is pushing the lead on getting early 5g installed. And those new chip sets will be released on handsets world wide, made in China,,, not Japan. Some of the features can not be used till the new handsets arrive.
And even newer features will be availible as the standards are voted on and agreed on by industry.

And... it will continue to evolve with new bands being release as we go along with newer technologies.

3000OH · Feb 4, 2019

+1 on clear sky. We had our place surveyed early last spring and the surveyor we hired used GPS. I tagged along, learned a lot. He said they often get about +/- 1/8 inch accuracy...before leaves come out and start blocking the line of sight to enough satellites. Late summer, he said they sometimes have to use old traditional way in heavy woods.

So, accuracy might go down for you around field edges.

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