Announcements
Mar 13, 2025
Hello Iowa RTN users, We are getting close to planting, construction, and survey season. Make sure you confirm your subscription is valid before you get out to the field. Please visit the Iowa RTN website and see the help documents under IARTN RESOURCES for assistance. Please don't wait to until the last minute to confirm your account subscription. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Feb 10, 2025
Hello IaRTN users, The Spider updated planned for tomorrow Feb. 11 has been postponed. Thank you, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Feb 04, 2025
Hello IaRTN users, We will be installing updates on Spider on Feb. 11, 2025. The RTN will be offline starting at 7:00 am for a few hours. Please plan accordingly. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Jan 14, 2025
Starting out 2025 to remind users that Iowa DOT Survey Control Website Portal is available from the following Iowa DOT Open Data website at: https://data.iowadot.gov/pages/iowa-dot-apps The IaDOT Survey Control Website Portal primarily provides Control Survey Point data from IaDOT Project support and Monumentation established as part of Project Development and Design. The Portal has included notable improvements over the second half of 2024 to improve user support and content information throughout Iowa, and dually includes all Iowa County GPS Control...
Jan 13, 2025
Hello IaRTN users, The RTN may be offline on Tuesday January 14th at 5:00 PM for a couple hours. Please plan accordingly. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Dec 30, 2024
Hello IaRTN users, I received a few emails regarding the subscription renewals. If you go to your subscription page in SBC and the status is 'Renewed Scheduled' you are good to go. I created videos to help with the account settings if you are like me and forget what they are after 2 years. They can be found under the IARTN RESOUCRES tab on the IaRTN homepage. I encourage anyone using the IaRTN to watch those videos for best practices...
Nov 07, 2024
Hello RTN users, The RTN appears to be back online. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Hello RTN users, There is a statewide network outage. The RTN is down. No ETA as of now. Please sign into SBC and view the Live Status for the status of the reference stations. I will post when the network has us back up. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator
Oct 10, 2024
Hello IaRTN users, The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is forecasting a significant solar storm for Oct 10th thru 11th. Solar activity increases the errors in the atmosphere. These errors are difficult to resolve by GNSS corrections. There might be issues with UHF and cellular signals as well. Keep this in mind over the next few days when you are having trouble getting a fixed solution or your position is off more than usual. In the past, users have called...
Sep 05, 2024
Hello IaRTN users, We had an issue with some server hardware installation this morning that took down the RTN for a while. The RTN is back online. I apologize for the late notice. Thank you for your patience, Dan Messerich, PLS Iowa DOT RTN Administrator