Trimble Recon with A3 Antenna and Arcpad

[manojpant]

i am trying to use Arcpad 8 on a trimble recon device with a A3 antenna.
arcpad just cant take the gps it always show no GPS connection (whatever port i suggest)
it also gives me error code 55.

can anybody had similar problem if so please suggest

cheers

[AlexMahrou]

Manoj,

The A3 is the antenna, what type of receiver are you using attached to the Recon?  You should be using the R3 as this was sold as a bundle with the A3, R3, and Recon as a Post-Processed L1 survey solution. 

If you can confirm that you are using the A3 receiver, then it is running NMEA which will work with ArcPad.  Tell me, when you go to your GPS Preferences, have you clicked the "binoculars" icon to automatically look for the GPS?  If everything is connected up hardware wise, it should locate the NMEA messages from the GPS Receiver.

[manojpant]

hi alex,

the configuration of the gps are as below:

1) Recon handheld

2) A3 Antenna

3) R3 Receiver

yes i also used find comm (binocular) to search for the com to lock into but no success.
an error with code 55 is coming.

[JonathanFrancis]

Manoj .. were you able to solve this problem?
I'm having this same issue at the moment.