Retired surveyor from Suffolk, England

Welcome. I use a Leica LS10 digital level. The user interface of the onboard software could be more intuitive. Overall, I think it's a pretty good instrument.

@field-dog  Thank you ,  field-dog.   🍺  🍺

I'm guessing that problems with your 1200 system may be solved with a firmware update that addresses most recent the GPS week rollover, if such a thing exists for that model, and you can get it without a MyWorld subscription. 

@norman-oklahoma   Hi Norman, Thank you.

  Yes, I can see a free firmware update  for the System1200 at the Precision Geosystems website.

This is all new to me. But this RPLS Forum is full of useful information, and helpful members. So there is hope.

The System1200 works as it is, and it is just the date that is wrong.  This is fixable in exported text files but it would be better if it was correct.

The UK Leica agent  tells me that the System1200 Measurement Engine needs a separate update provided by Leica, probably  under a support agreement.

But only if my  GX1230 has a ME3 microchip. The agent wrote:

"The older models of the GX1230 were fitted with the ME2 microchip. These models are now no longer supported/obsolete."

"Newer models of the GX1230 have the ME3 microchip and can still be upgraded."

I await a reply from the UK Leica agent who has asked for the GX1230 serial number to be checked against a Leica database.

Have you ever been to Thorpe Abbotts? I believe that is in Suffolk. My father was there at the airbase in WWII, got shot down and then spent time as a POW in Germany. I went to a reunion of his bomber group (Bloody 100th) a few years ago and met the people who run the museum there at the old airfield. I really want to go visit it. 

If anyone has seen the series "Masters of the Air", which came out in 2024, my father's character was in several episodes. Hambone, two gold teeth in front. 

@john-hamilton   Hi John,  yes , I visited the USAAF "Bloody 100th" museum at Thorpe Abbots a few times. The local volunteers that run the museum do an excellent job of keeping alive the memory of the many brave young Americans who flew from there.

We have so many WW2 ex-USAAF airfields in Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex. I counted over ninety. Many with museums.

I have visited the ones nearby. Twenty or so. Some returned to farmland, some still in use for light aircraft. Other to light industry and windfarms.

The nearest is in Holton on the edge of Halesworth.

Both the 56th Fighter Group and the 489th Bomb Group stayed here. P47 fighters and then B24 bombers. Another really good museum.

I will search for Masters of the Air.

The many Americans who came to East Anglia during WW2 are not forgotton.

@steveh That's cool, I really need to go.

If not for the attack on Pearl Harbor my father would not have met my mother (they met in Sioux City while he was at training). They married after three days, then a couple of weeks later he shipped out to England (January 1943). Shot down and captured in October of 1943. Seriously wounded, spent a month in a German hospital, then went to a POW camp in northern Germany. Liberated May 1 1945 by Russians.

Before the war he was a roughneck working on an oil rig in Kansas. One very cold winter day he saw a guy pull up in a nice car, get out, take a few notes, and then leave. He asked is buddy who that was, and his buddy told him that was the engineer. So my dad decided that's what he wanted, but his family was poor and no way he could go to college. Until the war and the GI Bill. Got a PhD in EE.