Sometimes you can't even work in the same county with folks that are pretty sure they are the only surveyors around. This thing had ever frequency dirtied up so bad we couldn't get 300' from our base...and we were a mile and a half away from this mess.
I had good cover to hide in around 600 yards from this thing. My only scoped rifle isn't sighted in for anything close to that, but I'd like to try...
Maybe a better idea would be to bust open six bags of sweet feed around the equipment and turn off the hot wire. Let the 'local indigenous population' stomp around for a while.
I can relate. A few years ago I rode up on this one morning going to set a base up.
Corey
>This thing had ever frequency dirtied up so bad we couldn't get 300' from our base...and we were a mile and a half away from this mess.
I would think the FCC would have something to say about that?
Would it not be cheaper to have a repeater? I mean it looks like the guy has an industrial generator on the back of that thing.
This is why I went to Intuicomm, no more listening to people ordering hamburgers for their crew.
I often leave my bus card on found GPS bases. With a note on the back "Thanks, but I have my own equipment.
IF I found a super noisy one, (Like you did) I'd do the math. He has the TOWER, and probably has a short in his system. That's what is generating all the noise. So, I'd go to him, and show him how much RF he is generating. A weak power wire, a bad antenna wire, or water in the antenna wire etc all can reduce range, and then the Bad to the Bone redneck will pop up with some compensation device, like the towers in the photos.
I am saying that there is a HINT of malfunctioning equipment. IF you unplug it, or turn off his amplifier, then sit back, he will show up soon. Not to be rude to them, but I strongly suspect something is out of order, if you NEED that kind of tower.
N
looks like someone's "Compensating"
:-X
I would think so. This was a seismic survey crew's setup. The generator was to raise and lower the tower I think. The radio was just a standard trimble trimmark3. A little overkill in my opinion.
Nice lightning rod...
I saw those guys or a setup just like it up on Hwy 74 last week. Still carrying backpack rovers :pinch:
Sounds like its in violation of the narrow banding laws.
I know one of the highway construction company here in Louisiana uses trailers like that so that the RTK crews can get about a 20+ mile coverage.
But you should not be getting cross freq interference like that. Like mentioned above something ain't right with their set up.
Probably the same guys, Blake
This was week before last. The pic is on Industrial, looking north, 4 or 5 miles east of SH74, east of the golf course. Their Advanced Warning sign read "Seismic Crew". Should have read "Trabajadores Sísmicas" if you asked me.;-)
Everything OK up there? Has ihre geliebte Frau made any of those cinnamon rolls lately?
With a single base 20 miles seems to really push the limits of the RTK model. I might be dating myself but I always thought after about 10 miles the errors from a single base started to build up.
A hand held UHF radio scanner is always handy, you can search to determine what UHF Frequency this guy is using, set your RTK Rover to use the same Frequency. On your RTK Rover, perform a RTK Localization to the control points/Coordinate system for YOUR job.
If all that's simply too much work, simply unplug this battery lead to his transmitter.
Wait around for a few minutes to the survey crew wander back to their RTK Base setup, figure out why THEIR RTK Rover is computing a fix any longer.
I do NOT/would NOT recommend un-connecting this surveyors external Radio antenna cable while the high power RTK Base radio is Transmitting, this will BURN UP this guys radio.
You will end up buying this other surveyor a new external RTK Base radio, after the fist-fight is over, (any way) and the local cops show up to place the braclets on every body to sort things out. We don't need any stinking Badges...
-BbB B-)
I've seen this same setup down in Florida, Me thinks I know who's setup this was...
-BbB B-)
Probably the same guys, Blake
Everything is good. Her cinnamon rolls are now world famous. She has expanded to cakes as well.
She says hi and insist I will bring your some of them rolls.
I would turn them into the FCC, there is no excuse for this, obviously something way exceeding a normal FCC license for RTK freqs, especially since it was so dirty. There are antenna height restrictions on every FCC license, I doubt they have one for whatever height this was. Some people need to learn they aren't the only ones around and FCC has rules for a reason.
SHG
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