hello i'm kate and you may know me from my youtube channel Kate's Ag today i'm here at
john deere with rem and connor and they're going to be explaining why if you have an older receiver
you need to come to john deere and update and get the new one for any of your john deere
equipment with a gps my family and my dad and i are a customer at john deere because we just
love all the products and we've been using them since my great grandfather homesteaded and
ever since john deere came out we've loved their products so i'm so excited now rem and connor are
going to be explaining all about why you need to update your receiver so coming on february
1st the itc globes will be decommissioned this is because the federal government is taking down the
satellites that these globes operate off of this isn't something we control here at john deere but
we want you and our customers to be aware of that so it's important that you're going to need to
update to either a 3000 or 6000 globe in order to keep you going this seating season this
spring additionally the 3000 and 6000s will still pull in a correct gps signal however they'll both
need updates these updates can either be done by you on our my john deere stellar support website
or you can bring them in to the frontline egg solutions dealership for fifty dollars
we can update to them and have them ready to go for you or we can do them in field for 150
one of the benefits that folks will get by going to the 6 000 compared to the 3000 and the itc is
traditionally where if you fired up your itc for the first time at the beginning of the season it
would take and uh 20 minutes to pull in all your satellites and get to full accuracy the 6000 will
do that in about two minutes instead wow that's great yeah so a lot less time sitting and waiting
on your gps to get to full signal in full strength for sure the 3000s are still a little faster than
the itc but not near as fast as the 6000 the itc's won't be able to auto steer after february 1st but
for the folks that just want coverage mapping or for section control on say a john deere drill
they will still work for that they'll pull in the wasp signal they just won't be able to pull
in the auto track correction signal okay there is still use for folks like that that just want
coverage mapping and gps location my dad brought his john deere in for winter service and that's
when one of the great people at john deere noticed that he needs to update his receiver so it's very
important definitely come and get your receiver before seating so you can be prepared and be the
most efficient possible when time really matters yeah we don't want folks to wait till the last
second just because our fear is that if everyone in the area in the country is trying to make the
switch over at one time we may not be able to get replacement 6000s to get folks going you'll be on
a waiting list and we don't want to see anybody down not being able to auto steer come spring
for sure thank you so much frontline egg solutions will also throw in the new brackets to help your
3000 6000 adapt to your equipment another update that will need to be done in the coming year uh
in december 2021 3g modular telematics gateways or mtgs will no longer be used as they will no longer
be able to pull in the cell signal to update data and to send us diagnostic trouble codes we can
update those for 750 to a 4g mtg that has a subscription for three years that's fantastic
thank you make sure to come to your local frontline egg solutions to update your receiver
and you just have the most wonderful service so you really want to come and update your receiver
so for folks with gen force how you'd see what software version your 3000 or 6000
is on to know if you needed to do the update you go main menu applications and then to your
starfire there's a software version this current one's on 3.8 g you need to be on at least 4.4 p
to be ready for next seating season that's what a 6 000 he's in the shed so
that's why it's not reading anything right now this is where it would pull in the satellites it
was reading on if it was reading on satellites we can now do software updates over the air
in order to do that a technician can send software updates to your piece of equipment when needed in
order to take those and pull those down and have them upload onto your display you would go to main
menu you would then go to applications iso bus vt then click the main menu at the bottom right and
click on our precision farming reprogramming we can now install software that's been sent
to the machine for either the globe or the display and keeping updated software on
these pieces of equipment helps reduce downtime and keep things running smoothly and efficiently
make sure that your operation center needs terms and conditions are agreed to or your data will
be deleted by february 12th so don't forget to agree to those terms and conditions make sure
to stop by your local frontline egg solutions and pick up a brand new receiver so that you will be
prepared for seating this year and all up to date thank you so much connor and rem for all of the
great information it's absolutely fascinating and you'll have to come and get your receiver
and also come and pick up your mtg if you want all the great data or your field
so