Agilent Technologies E7474A Getting Started Manual page 79

Setting Up Your System
Phone-Based System Setup
Configuring a Trimble Placer GPS 455 with Dead Reckoning
NOTE
When the heading sensor is connected to the GPS 455 receiver, Dead
Reckoning must be calibrated before the software will provide correct GPS
information.
1. Connect the hardware security key to the parallel port of the PC.
2. Connect the serial port of the PC to the MDT port of the Trimble Placer
3. Connect the Heading Sensor to the HS port of the Trimble Placer GPS
4. Connect the GPS antenna to the GPS ANT port of the Trimble Placer
5. Connect the phone cable to a second COM port (different than used in
6. Turn on the Trimble Placer GPS 455, the phone, and the PC.
7. Calibrate the DR unit using Trimble supplied software Plcrinit.exe or
8. Start the Agilent Technologies application software. Verify that both the
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GPS 455 using an RS-232 straight-through cable. The default serial port
used by the application is serial, COM1. If your PC uses a different COM
port, you can specify a different serial port number.
455 through the female 9-pin connector on the DR sensor cable supplied
by Trimble. See Figure
connects to the heading sensor; the connector labeled Sensors connects to
the Placer GPS 455.
GPS 455 unit. Agilent Technologies recommends that a "bulkhead
mount" GPS antenna be used whenever possible for improved
performance.
step 1). On most laptop PCs this will require the use of a Socket Serial I/O
RS-232 card that is installed into the PCMCIA slot on your PC.
GPSSK. If you do not have this software, it is available on the Trimble
web page.
software and the Trimble Placer GPS 455 are configured for the same
communication protocol.
2-10. The connector labeled Heading Sensor
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