Mistake 1- Making the purchase decision based on capabilities as stated by the vendor. A second (and infinitely worse) version of this is basing the decision on the sales brochure.
Mistake 2- Reducing hourly rates because 1 man is now doing the work of 2 or reducing overall price due to increased efficiency...
An important note is that you can replace 'RTK' with 'EDM' or 'ROBOT' or any other piece of hardware we use...
Yes it works pretty well, only thing on the roof is the GPS antenna and radio antenna, the radio and receiver are locked in the truck.
> An important note is that you can replace 'RTK' with 'EDM' or 'ROBOT' or any other piece of hardware we use..
AMEN!
The button pushing started long before GPS. I have seen evidence of button pushing on early EDM surveys.
"Set the tripod legs back in the same holes, of course!!"
That's funny! 
Dave
I can't fathom anybody actually doing No. 1.
One of my first mistakes was doing two "here" locations in the same job. but it was on two points separated by a mile or more. I knew it was wrong but the plan was to connect them together by ties to common points.
Num 1. (Twas not me!)
I saw a job with that problem
Another mistake: Set base station near a metal roof barn, where multipath is gonna really mess it up.
Another mistake: Set base in nice little clearing, near a little store. Come noon, there was a string of 18 wheelers, within 10' of his base, with a big flat side, supplying all the multipath needed, to kill a cow. So, the user is AWAY from the base, and does not see what happened, while he was away. This is called "A location of significant potential multipath environment". No, not while he was setting up, but after he left.
Another one, is to leave the base on the side of a county road.... along comes a logging truck, and being the nice guy he is, he gets out, MOVES the tripod over, drives past, and puts it back... sorta!
How do you know the TIME it moved?
🙂
Thank all of you who have helped me through the years.
Nate