2025 John Deere RTK Mobile Base

2025 John Deere RTK Mobile

• Provides +/- 1 inch pass-to-pass accuracy season after season, and year after year

• Allows you to use RTK precision in difficult areas such as hilly terrain because there is no line-of-sight requirement to the base station.

• No need to manually switch base stations as you move between fields — you can roam anywhere within the network and have access to the RTK correction signal.

• Requires a StarFire 6000 receiver, SF3 Ready Activation, RTK Ready Activation

• Requires John Deere Mobile RTK subscription

Features may include:

• Customize accuracy and repeatability to meet the needs of an operation

• The StarFire™ 6000 Receiver offers multiple differential correction signal levels to match receiver performance with the needs of the operation.

• StarFire 6000 horizontal pass-to-pass accuracy:

• SF1: +/- 15 cm (5.9 in.)

• SF3: +/- 3 cm (1.2 in.)

• Radio RTK: +/- 2.5 cm (1.0 in.)

• Mobile RTK: +/- 2.5 cm (1.0 in.)

• What does pass-to-pass accuracy really mean for the user?

• Pass-to-pass accuracy defines how accurate the receiver is at calculating its position over a relatively short (15-minute) time window. For each point in time during that 15-minute window, a pass-to-pass error value is calculated based on the difference between the desired track spacing at the receiver and the actual track spacing based on the receiver’s calculated position. The error values for the entire 15-minute period are combined and the pass-to-pass accuracy value is defined as the 95 percent confidence interval of the data set, meaning 95 percent of the error values are less than or equal to the specification.

• Pass-to-pass accuracy is measured at the receiver and does not take into account additional error sources such as AutoTrac™ control system error, ground conditions, or implement drift.

• Pass-to-pass accuracy has a direct impact on guess-row spacing during jobs like planting, strip till, or fertilizer application, which can have a direct impact on yield potential. Guess-row spacing is also critical for operational efficiency and reducing crop damage in operations that mix implements of various widths.

• Pass-to-pass accuracy also has a direct impact on the amount of skip or overlap that occurs during operations like spraying, fertilizer spreading, or conventional tillage, which has a direct impact on yield potential and input costs.

• StarFire 6000 repeatability:

• SF1: no repeatability, position drifts over time

• SF3: +/- 3 cm (1.2 in.) in-season repeatability (where applicable)

• Radio RTK: +/- 2.5 cm (1.0 in.) long-term repeatability

• Mobile RTK: +/- 2.5 cm (1.0 in.) long-term repeatability (where applicable)

• What does repeatability really mean for the operator?

• Repeatability defines how accurately the receiver can calculate its position over a relatively long time window. Repeatability is measured at the receiver and does not take into account additional error sources such as AutoTrac control system error, ground conditions, or implement drift.

• John Deere Mobile RTK requirements

• This solution utilizes RTK correction data from the John Deere Mobile RTK network. A machine equipped with a John Deere MTG and an active JDLink™ subscription can connect through the JDLink cellular network and John Deere Mobile RTK network to get repeatable RTK correction data wherever the coverage of both networks is available.

• John Deere Mobile RTK requires: