Looking at my work week and making some plans incase there's some opportunities to collect data while doing other work.....
I want to meet the guy from 1963...?ÿ I wonder how he did in the stock market?
I have a bumper sticker that I picked up in Yaak about 30years ago:
"I've been to the YAAK and back!"
"Yaak Mercantile?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ Yaak, Montana"
I think I was fishing the Yaak River at the time, working my way across Northern Montana and Idaho.
Loyal
And just to round out the usual topic progression; here's a photo of some yaks we saw in the field the other day.
?ÿ
Dang! He was good 😉
TN0994_SATELLITE: THE SITE LOCATION WAS REPORTED AS SUITABLE FOR TN0994+SATELLITE: SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS - June 25, 1963
With clairvoyance like that, he didn't need to record tie distances. He could probably smell a monument.
Good luck to you in finding it with only that report to go on.
You might be able to find it using the X on the USGS topo map, relative to the bend in the river.
"....Yaak and back....." no mention of the Dirty Shame, huh.... 😉
"....Yaak and back....." no mention of the Dirty Shame, huh.... 😉
"waiting moderation".... what the heck?!?!?!
The BM PID # is TN0994 (USGS Quad?ÿ YAAK 1963)
It needs to be located and a new description done on it (if it can be found). The road intersection is still there.
The old Cabin is gone.
I don't see what's so funny about this; for all you new surveyors They did have Satellite
Surveying?ÿ back before NAVSTAR-GPS. You might want to research Transit System
aka NAVSAT or NNSS (Navy Navigation Satellite System).
?ÿ
JOHN NOLTON
?ÿ
PS?ÿ NGS used Doppler positions in the adjustment of 1983
Although some agencies and the navy were working on use of satellites for positioning, I would be surprised if a USGS crew was thinking of that in 1963.
I suspect someone entered the suitability info in error.
Or maybe the BC-4 ballistic camera program. See:?ÿ http://adsbit.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1965SSRv....4..236C&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf
If that link doesn??t work try?ÿ http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/1965SSRv....4..236C/0000236.000.html
?ÿMore accessibly described here: http://www.palmerstation.com/history/6575/pageos.html
Interesting stuff, but I don't see any indication they had a camera in Montana to explain the data sheet notation.
Bill93?ÿ I suspect that someone entered the information about "SUITABLE FOR SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS"
after the fact.?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ?ÿ ?ÿSo when did you start surveying?
As a Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1963 I can assure you, I and others were thinking
about Satellite surveying and how small the equipment would get. We joked about having a unit
that would be carried on the hip. If I and others were thinking about it in 1963 you can bet your bottom dollar USGS
was thinking of it as well as NGS (USC&GS then).
You might find 2 publications by NGS that will explain what was going on back then.
1.?ÿ Satellite Triangulation ( A New Satellite Tracking System For Use In Satellite Triangulation
And Related Geodetic Research; year 1962?ÿ (see GeeOddMike post above).
2. Satellite Triangulation in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, Technical Bulletin #24, 1965.
?ÿ
JOHN NOLTON
"....Yaak and back....." no mention of the Dirty Shame, huh.... 😉
I always thought the bar/tavern across the street from the Dirty Shame had better food. Although in the two weeks I spent there, we would bounce between the two for our "meals".
