NTRIP diagnostics
Is this correction stream good?
Answer in five seconds, no receiver required. RTK Pulse connects to any NTRIP caster or mountpoint from your phone and tells you — in plain English — whether the stream is healthy, and what is wrong when it is not.
Honesty first: the test runs over this phone’s connection, not your receiver. Every verdict and exported report says so.
Three steps in the field
- 01
Enter the caster
Host, port, your NTRIP username and password. Or open a saved profile. Plaintext targets get an explicit “credentials sent in clear” warning.
- 02
Pick a mountpoint
The live SOURCETABLE is fetched from the caster and sorted by distance from you. Network-RTK mountpoints (VRS/MAC/FKP) are detected and handled.
- 03
Read the verdict
A sentence you can act on, four stat cards for the detail, and a diagnostic ladder — host, port, credentials, stream quality — when the test fails.
What it actually checks
The same NTRIP/RTCM3 engine that powers fixcast, our caster-operator monitoring product — packaged as a single-user diagnostic.
Plain-English diagnosis
Not a hex dump. A sentence that names the failing rung: unreachable host, wrong port, rejected credentials, or a stream that connects but never sends corrections.
RTCM message breakdown
Which message types arrive, at what rate, and whether the set is complete enough for a fix — including the base/VRS station message.
Latency and arrival age
Correction age percentiles over the run, not a single lucky sample — so an intermittently stalling stream cannot hide behind an average.
Network-RTK aware
For nmea=1 mountpoints the app injects the GGA position the protocol requires, then reports whether the network actually answered with a virtual station.
NTRIP v1, v2 and TLS
Both framings, plus TLS on 443/2102 with strict certificate validation. Local bases on your own network are fair game too.
A report you can send
Export a PDF that proves what the stream did — with credentials and position stripped by the engine, not by a UI filter.
Free and Pro
Testing is unlimited and free, with no sign-in wall. Pro is for proving a failure was the caster’s fault, and for watching a stream over time.
| Free and Pro | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Test any NTRIP connection | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Plain-English diagnosis | Yes | Yes |
| Full log — summary, messages, satellites | Yes | Yes |
| Saved profiles | 2 | 5 |
| Session history | Last 3 | Unlimited |
| Account data | Encrypted backup, 1 device | Live multi-device sync |
| Export diagnostic PDF report | First export free | Unlimited |
| Share report link | — | Yes |
| Stream quality alerts | — | Yes |
| Smart mountpoint map | — | Yes |
Pro is a subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play; the price and period are shown in the app at purchase time. Working without an account is a first-class mode — diagnostics, two profiles and recent history all work offline.
Where your data goes — and where it does not
Your NTRIP passwords stay on the device, in the platform keystore. They leave it only toward the caster you asked us to test — never to our servers, not even with an account.
Connecting to a network-RTK (VRS) mountpoint sends your position to that caster operator, because the protocol requires it. We ask before the first run, we say who receives it, and you can send a coarsened position instead.
In development
RTK Pulse is being built for iOS and Android. If you run RTK in the field and want an early build, write to us — say which network you use and which platform you are on.