At my old company we used to use a pair cinder blocks and length of chain, with idea to would be a hassle run down the street with it. If we were really concerned we'd hire the boss's deadbeat son to sit in the truck all day.
Of course guess who broke in the equipment room 2 years later and cleaned us out..... Got it all back though; the damn fool only went 2 towns over to pawn it.
Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 415463, member: 335 wrote: Tripod if need to be over existing point, tripod/antenna is only exposure, receiver, battery, memory, etc. are safe inside trailer. Wheel boot on trailer wheel. If super paranoid, I will chain the tripod to the trailer, been thinking of adding a security camera system with ability to monitor over the web, but this is usually deployed in remote areas often with no cell coverage.
If I just need a base, I have developed a roof mount, no tripod needed. In this photo the solar panels show up as well as cell phone antenna and 900 Mhz antenna for the Intuicom bridge radio.
I have never lost a setup or had it disturbed once I started using a trailer in about 2003, prior to that I lost two setups, one with my helper 50-100 feet away and we also lost one at a prior place I worked, so that is three that I have personal knowledge of walking away. Of course these days, as often or not there might be a RTN, so the base is used less often.
SHG
Shelby,
Are you performing RTK Surveys with the base on the trailer? If so have you seen any issues with the base moving from wind, other trucks driving by and shaking the trailer, the expansion and contraction from the trailer during the day? In the past we have been told that you always want your base on a stable setup, so I'm curious how that may affect your RTK collected solutions.
T.I.A.,
Larry
I still use tripod with the trailer for most operations and run a cable inside to the solar powered GNSS receiver and base station radio. The roof mount is a new add on for quick deployment and is primarily used in that mode as a base station for post processing road profile kinematic data. Trailer actually seems pretty stable, but of course there is probably some movement, in the application of road profiling, we are looking primarily at the vertical component and that would be less than horizontal due to wind.
SHG
James Fleming, post: 415480, member: 136 wrote:
No, no, no - you can't like this! You can like the movie though. The bar scene was filmed in the restaurant where my fiancee worked. They filmed it on days she was off. The long-legged cocktail waitress worked at the engineering firm I was with at the time.
cemetery
John Hamilton, post: 435612, member: 640 wrote: cemetery
Recently did that, of course it was still open to public, used two separate cemeteries a few miles apart as my two base station locations for a project. These were both wide open in Western Washington where there are lots of trees, there is a reason it is known as the Evergreen State.
SHG
Just kidding...
I wouldn't be....
imaudigger, post: 435786, member: 7286 wrote: Just kidding...