Great fun when I had my son working with me the other day, ball busting as we used to say, as only dad & son can do.
He says "oh, cool you have the rover and base labeled. That make things simpler."
I said "yeah", as I tip up the receiver to show him, "because I'll all about that..."
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He laughs and says "OMG - you're so dumb"
Dad jokes are the best.
One of my favorite crew chiefs I worked with who is about 68 now made basically that same joke a few years back not long after that dumb song came out. Lol.
Man I miss working with him. The Leica just isn't that chatty and has very little sense of humor.?ÿ
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Not a big music fan.?ÿ Had to do a giggle search to figure it out.
That make things simpler.
You would think so...
A couple years ago I was working on an out-of-town project with a crew from another office in the company.?ÿ One day they wrapped up before me and came by to see how I was doing.?ÿ I was just wrapping up myself so they packed up my GPS for me.?ÿ The next day I rolled out, set up the GPS and went to do a check shot and my distance was spot on but my bearing was exactly 180 degrees off.?ÿ I thought an orientation setting or something must have got changed in the data collector somehow and I sat there for at least a half hour trying to figure what the hell was going on.?ÿ I forget how I eventually solved it but what had happened was we had a case that held both receivers and the 2 other guys at my office always put them in the case in the same slots, so we never had to pay much attention to which one was the base and which was the rover.?ÿ The crew I was working with didn't know this though and ended up putting them in the "wrong" slots.?ÿ So yeah, I was running around with the base on the rod...?ÿ ????????
The R10s and R12s either can be the base. We have one designated as the base but don??t have to.
@bstrand my coworker and I experienced that for the first time just the other week. Definitely head scratching for a few minutes. in this case the base was used as a rover on the last job and we didn??t switch that in the collector.
Moral of the story: it is great to label equipment but you also need to read the labels and correlate them with your data collector.?ÿ
Some of the cars drivin' around O town have got the base all figgered' out, all 276 decibels of it, and as an added bonus some sort of accompanying repetitive whooping sound that sounds like a distress call. Get off my grass. ?????ÿ
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Eh??ÿ What'd ya say??ÿ Mother, turn down the rad-e-o, so I can figure out what Bill is tryin' ta say ta me.?ÿ I think it was sumpin' 'bout grass.?ÿ Maybe he's got some fer sale.
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When I was in high school and college we all had big subwoofers in our cars. Nowadays it seems rare as most modern cars make it difficult to upgrade the stereo. I still have 2 10" subs in my 84 Cutlass but they aren't very loud really. I'm more about the mids and treble than the bass.?ÿ
I'm so old when I was in high school and college all we had was a rear speaker with a reverberator, not the good kind the cheap echo chamber kind about $30 in 1966. ?????ÿ
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Can't hear the radio over the sound of the windows rattling in the doors anyway.
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I was born in 83 and started driving in 99. I drove a car the same age as me and still do. Lol. I don't feel old yet so it's hard to swallow how much time has passed since then.?ÿ
My youngest was born in 83 and was the youngest in her class.?ÿ High School and volleyball practice began a couple weeks prior to the day she turned 14 and was able to test to obtain a Learner's (Farmer's) permit.?ÿ I pulled her from school on her birthday and took her to the Highway Patrol licensing center that was open on that date.?ÿ She passed the written test with flying colors but the patrolman wasn't too sure about taking her out for the driving test.?ÿ We assured him it would not be a problem.?ÿ When they returned he was downright giddy about what a wonderful job of driving he had experienced from such a little person who did not look 14.?ÿ We neglected to mention she had already logged many miles with farm trucks in fields and back roads plus being instructed by her future step-mother who had already taught drivers education for about 15 years.
Sent her off to school in the Impala we purchased a couple months before she was born.
I also grew up on former farm property and got to drive around from a very young age. I even had a 79 Impala station wagon for a field car for a bit. (Dad's daily driver for 6 years). Unfortunately I had to wait until 16 to get a learners permit here in Ontario Canada.?ÿ
