There's more than one way to skin a cat, but I just have to?ÿsay from my experience with calibrations, if things are going to get hosed up on a survey, the quickest and easiest way to do it is with a calibration and every time you do a new one the odds of something going wrong increase. As a general rule I always keep my comp or search points separated from the surveyed points and this goes right out the window?ÿwith a calibration. I more inclined to just translate and rotate my comp points to my found control to get a feel for how things are fitting. If I do calibrate to older work of dubious quality I always post process the resulting vectors to be sure I've got independent surveyed measurements over ones that has some magic juju applied?ÿto?ÿthem in the little yellow brick. I've run across some really messed up surveys that were apparently scaled to ground, but that's not what happened and the operator in question was?ÿutterly?ÿclueless to the end results of their RTK work?ÿbecause they relied exclusively on what their DC was telling them and didn't post process their results.
The only time I've ever had anything close to what you describe happen was when I once accidently moved my base's?ÿGP?ÿposition in the middle of trying to get on to another survey. It was a total cluster trying to figure out what happened. ?ÿ
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Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.