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| OmniSTAR offers GPS correction services that can improve the accuracy of a GPS receiver by more than 100 times. Currently, three levels of service are offered: "VBS" offers sub-meter positioning, "XP" achieves better than 20 centimeters, and "HP" is better than 10 centimeters. These services are available in various combinations in most land areas of the world. |
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| Welcome to OmniStar |
| OmniSTAR is a wide-area differential GPS service,
using satellite broadcast techniques.
For the sub-meter service, data from many widely-spaced Reference Stations is used in a proprietary multi-site solution over most land areas worldwide. The high accuracy HP solution uses more sophisticated data from these reference sites and XP uses satellite orbit and clock correction data which is independent of reference site location.
OmniSTAR is a member of the Fugro group of companies
with offices throughout the world. A request form
is provided for requesting additional information
on areas and services. |
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OmniSTAR, Inc. is part of the Fugro Group of Companies, one of the world's foremost survey service companies. OmniSTAR's involvement in precise positioning goes back over 25 years. In the mid-1980's, before GPS was fully operational, the precursor of OmniSTAR provided North America with the World's first round-the-clock satellite positioning service. OmniSTAR now operates the largest array of reference sites of any company anywhere in the world and is the World leader in providing wide-area, differential GPS correction services using satellite broadcast.
With the advent of GPS, OmniSTAR, Inc. has built
on this expertise in satellite technology and precise
geo-location to develop a choice of continent-wide Differential GPS services incorporating proprietary solutions to provide unequaled accuracy.
For OmniSTAR, Customer Service is also a priority.
The telephone is answered 24 hours a day 7 days a
week by an OmniSTAR employee - no voice mail or answering
service!
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MSV Service Outage September 13, 2009
There will be a "Planned outage for our MSV broadcast in North America". It is scheduled for September 13 between the hours 00:00 AND 02:00 ET (04:00 - 06:00 GMT) for maintenance. The duration of the outage is expected to be about 45 min. HP and XP users can use our AMSAT broadcast (1535.1375 MHz). Receivers with Auto Frequency Search feature should switch automatically. If not, you can manually turn your receiver to 1535.1375 MHz @ 1200 baud. |
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09-17-09
AFSAT to EUSAT Satellite Frequency Change
September 30
This message is intended for all OmniSTAR users in the European and African regions that use our current AFSAT satellite service at 1535.080 MHz.
Due to a broadcast re-arrangement implemented by our Satellite Provider our broadcast service for the mentioned regions has been moved to a new satellite with a new frequency (1537.440 MHz). The data rate remains 1200 bps. This new satellite service has been named EUSAT.
This new frequency is available as of now and we encourage all our customers to move to that new frequency at their earliest opportunity.
Although for your convenience there will be a transition period until the end of November, during which period also the old frequency will remain available, after September 30th the location of the satellite with the old frequency will be such that the OmniSTAR performance will become sub-optimal for users in Central and Eastern Europe. Those users should move to the new frequency before the end of September. Other users do have more time but should not move to the new frequency later than the end of November.
Customers using a receiver in Automatic Scanning mode are kindly requested to switch the receiver on during a minimum of two consecutive hours before the end of this month September. This is a necessary step for the receiver to download information from the OmniSTAR satellite which enables the automatic switchover to the new frequency. |
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