Bob,This could get quite complicated - e-mail me at [email protected] and I'll put some more detailed notes together for you.
Bob,Switch on, get it ready to measure, take reading without selecting a programme - ie in P0Display will show HA, VA, SDpress ENTDisplay will show HA...
John Hamilton, post: 393110, member: 640 wrote: This is why ALL civil engineers should be required to take a survey course as part of their degree. No...
A general comment on the block RMT targets. If you are using these for precise measurement by holding the block against wall faces, etc. then be aware...
The measuring head and the telescope are offset, hence when you point at the centre of the yellow arrows the measuring head is aligned with the prism ...
bob james, post: 392962, member: 12050 wrote: Yes Chris, the RMT I have is identical. Despite the age of this equipment, it seems to be brand new spa...
.Is this the RMT you have? The LED is on the left and this is what the tracker follows. There is a routine in Menu 5.2 for calibrating the tracker to ...
Asymmetric heating of the tripod legs, especially with a quick rise in temperature, might well be causing the head to twist around. If the backsight a...
David C. Newell RPLS LS CFM, post: 392649, member: 6347 wrote: The Ground school covered:More or less the same as the UK ground school covered - two l...
dmyhill, post: 392458, member: 1137 wrote: What was covered in the Online Ground School that wasn't in the FAA materials? (Not asking for a complete l...
Williwaw, post: 392381, member: 7066 wrote: Ideally this is true that you must have a base running in order to post process your rover data, but not n...
To emphasize the point made earlier - you must be logging at the base. If I have any doubts about whether the RTK signal can be held throughout the su...
The FAA exam questions appear to be very similar to the UK exam questions. Most of it isn't very difficult - just a case of paying attention during th...
Looks like a 4400. serial number would help (small plate on underside). P1 to P19 are user definable sequences, P20 onwards are standard GDM programme...
Here is the one I did earlier - Summer 1985And here it is Summer 2011 on Google maps. It's the big Oak, just to the left of the light coloured ornamen...
Had you thought of cutting it down and delivering it to the Architect's office?I did one of these once (the survey, not the cutting down) more or less...
Just to add to what Kent has said.You say "I set a nail in the ground at the bottom of the pole close enough to get the prism pole against the pole an...
Shelby,Exactly right. Ground control provides an absolute certainty amongst all the predicted and theoretical accuracies - something which has been me...