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on Friday, October 10, 2025
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LandMark Josselyn Base Station RTK Customer,
The Josselyn RTK Base Station is on top of the old elevator on the south side of Hwy 30. Over time, this facility has fallen into disrepair and has been experiencing electrical power issues. These concerns have us focused on the safety of our employees gaining access to the base station on top of an abandoned facility with reduced maintenance and safety measures in place on manlifts. Due to the facility condition, electrical power service issues, and the confidence that we can still provide RTK service to our customers with the existing network, the decision has been made to discontinue service from this base station.
The Josselyn Base Station was originally constructed for use with 900 MHz radios that were mainly “line of sight” type of signal. In those times, we needed multiple Base Stations and Repeaters to provide adequate coverage, especially in areas with tree lines and rolling terrain. With our network now 450 MHz RTK, this tower density is no longer required. Over time, we have eliminated most of these base stations that were considered redundant. Since then, technology has come a long way. StarFire 3000s can fall back to SF2 for two weeks if you lose RTK for an extended period and StarFire 6000/7000/7500s can run for two weeks on RTK Extend without a base station.
We are going to move towards the end of life of the Josselyn RTK Base Station effective immediately. We will make sure you have access to the surrounding RTK Base Stations including Cozad, Sumner, Elm Creek, Johnson Lake, Elwood, and Atlanta. All six of those base stations are strong base stations, most of which have amplifiers, and all utilize Base Station Manager. The amplifiers help extend the signal out further than just using a radio alone helping to push through terrain and vegetation. Base Station Manager allows us to remotely manage and support those base stations. In the past, before Base Station Manager, we may not have known a base was down until the phone started ringing. Base Station Manager has allowed us to be more proactive and monitor base stations from anywhere. While it isn’t perfect, it greatly helps us ensure our base stations are up and running when you need them to be. Our goal is to have all our base stations work perfectly all the time.
If you have any concerns, please reach out to one of us below as we want you to be informed and comfortable with this change.
Logan Loeffelholz, CTS Lexington: 308-746-1191 LoganLoeffelholz@landmarkimp.com
Grant Clausen, CTS Holdrege: 308-991-5829 GrantClausen@landmarkimp.com
Chase Langenberg, CTS Kearney: 308-293-7649 ChaseLangenberg@landmarkimp.com
Justin Atwood, Customer Success Coordinator: 785-650-2438 JustinAtwood@landmarkimp.com
Jacob Kongs, Precision Ag Manager: 308-991-7950 JacobKongs@landmarkimp.com
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Cozad:
Network ID: 4053
Frequency: 452.225
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Sumner:
Network ID: 4051
Frequency: 462.4625
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Elm Creek:
Network ID: 4049
Frequency: 464.875
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Johnson Lake:
Network ID: 4037
Frequency: 461.125
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Elwood:
Network ID: 4033
Frequency: 452.675
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Atlanta:
Network ID: 4002
Frequency: 463.725
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The gray circle below represents the Josselyn base station. The picture on the right is with the Josselyn Base Station removed. As you can see, the green circles cover the same area from the surrounding base stations with the exception of one area east of Elwood. The darker green is an overlap of at least two base stations. While the map may show one small area with a gap in coverage, we know that base stations transmit well past the edge of the circles and there is coverage in this area. If you were to lose signal, you can be reassured that you will have a 2-week grace period with the use of RTK Extend on 6000/7000/7500 receivers or SF2 with 3000 receivers (with 15 minutes of RTK Extend on SF3000s).
Thank you for your business and continued support of LandMark’s RTK Network.