@350rocketmike it is amazing how muscle memory works. Doing the same thing over and over again. Yeah probably not to many folks do mission planning much anymore. ?ÿSome folks say doing it daily is to much of a hassle. But you can plan week ahead easily for each day. When I was in Georgia the sister company took my advice and the surveyor managers or field crew coordinators new just about every location that their crews would be for the week. And he just saved all the locations not point specific but site locations and bam he printed the daily out for the week and placed them in the field folder and also on the wall. Only time that might not work is if something changes last minute from a NANU report. But i showed them how to get the emails sent to them automatically. ?ÿBut reality is unless your going to push it into some spots that you know are going to be a problem and don??t want to waste time and do an obstruction chart and really find the best possible times it??s not as necessary today.
I've been told flipping the receiver no longer works with newer models.?ÿ
Use the procedure outlined in the manual, that's what works, so I'm told.?ÿ
However, it's very, very rare that there are bad fixes in open ground, something that was at least a daily occurrence back in my beta testing days. In heavy canopy you need to use it differently.?ÿ
Today's receivers are insanely sophisticated and versatile. They can do almost anything, just let them do the work.?ÿ
Think of the way points were done back in the day, then shift your thinking to make it happen now. Use first principles to guide you.
Yeah I imagine it would be a very worthwhile system to implement, to help ensure good information on each job, if you could reliably implement it, but my experience is that the schedule changes several times a week...jobs get switched to a different day on the regular because someone isn't ready (construction) etc. at least where I work this is the usual.
@bstrand yeah if I remember correctly the R8 runs a forward and backwards init ck it takes a little while for it to figure out if it is a bad init. So say you get init by truck as your getting ready to work and you walk a 100 ft in wide open observe and dump and it re inits and you see the first was bad Thats why. So a good practice with those and older equipment is get your gear on and as you are walking make it re init when you are in open sky. Not next to truck or building or stop sign or chainlink fence pine trees etc. ?ÿ also on those older recievers if you are init walking into a point thats good and you re init after. ?ÿBut if you get to a point and it inits while your at the point. On your second observation change the environment to get initialized in walk the other direction. Multipath is a slippery slimey pig. But its not the same every where so changes to your environment is a decent easy field procedures especially when you are pushing it. ?ÿI have no idea how long you have been doing work so don??t take offense. But one of the best things that us old timers learned is we had to use a compass and clinomoter to do obstruction charts. Take that if you are new and hang it around your neck for a week or so. While you are collecting for 180 epochs kinda map out the satellites at your 10 or 15 degree elevation mask from your list that gives you azimuth and elevation. You will learn over time the. With your naked eye what is and what is not an obstruction. I can??t count the times when we built the network i. Georgia people saying its out a foot a half a foot blah blah blah. ?ÿI would meet the crew chief on site and of course it was wide open. Wide open until i handed him a clinometer and compass and then that clear sky above him became much smaller. One is now licensed and we chat once in a while still. He runs his own company and he gives every new chief and i man a little training lesson on that.
@350rocketmike I hear you. When my boss sais we don??t have time to plan. I say my little ditty I heard years ago. Failing to plan is planning to fail. And my 7P??s prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance lol. But yes jobs sites change on construction. But if you know of every site location you can still plan even if you don??t go to it or not. The constellation will not change that much in a week or two day to day. You probably already know at say 330 it??s iffy or 430 etc.
We always found it worked best in the morning. Haven't really noticed that lately as much though.?ÿ
@350rocketmike so back in the summer east coast from around 2:45 pm - 445 pm was a period that was the worst. Same for my friend in Mississippi i am in Virginia. ?ÿIt slowly changes as the year goes on. Now the one thing good about gps is the sun doesn??t have to be shining for it to work. My friend was on a job that advised him to change his work schedule for the two weeks he was being rushed. So he worked from 0600 till 1200 went home ate lunch took a nap. About 1900 - 2200 he was on site again staying ahead of the contractor. He loved the schedule as it was much cooler at night And he had a lot of ground to cover all in different areas a few points here few points their type of thing. That two hours not struggling saved him way more time for what was needed.
