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Joined: July 2, 2010 11:18 am
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Topics: 103 / Replies: 836
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RE: Considering Equipment upgrade - need advice

I was gonna say the exact same thing. In 7 years our 1203 has never chased anything either.We use a 1203 "smart station", has the GPS receiver inside ...

14 years ago
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RE: Traverse Question

Yes!Our crew shoots every backsight check with a new point number.I spend an odious inordinate amount of time figuring out which point numbers are whi...

14 years ago
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RE: Traverse Question

if you are using any kind of least squares, set up between the points and do some close-to-180-degree free stationing. Gets you about the same thing a...

14 years ago
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RE: I have a...

Leica 1200's just aren't meant to be zeroed. That's something the silly Americans do. You can only build a proper Swiss watch with azimuths. Let the L...

14 years ago
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RE: Leave to Leica...

I prefer the mandatory yodeling to singing the alphabet song when I run the TDS-style collectors.

14 years ago
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RE: need to vent...

On a big site where you are there every day, you can essentially monitor your own control with the RTK and have a better idea of what's going on over ...

14 years ago
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RE: gun's eye versus your eye

4 pointings by eye, with most careful focus and parallax adjustments, slowly on a good day = 1.8" 4 pointings by the swiss miss, faster than you can...

14 years ago
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RE: need to vent...

I kinda doubt that your 60 seconds is any better than the first second.RTK is real-time. It doesn't keep a running average. For efficiency's sake we'd...

14 years ago
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RE: Wild T1

Please send the T-0 my way. I can email you an address!

14 years ago
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14 years ago
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RE: Why you should be learning GRID brgs, with RTK

Shhhh! You have discovered how we pincushion ourselves at every turn! Trade Seekrits!

14 years ago
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RE: How do you describe a curve?

Woohoo! The boss just taught me this trick today! He said he was the only guy he knew who did it that way ...

14 years ago
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RE: "feet" in CAD

The coordinates were new and shiny and the two guys in the white van said they were fresh yesterday morning!

14 years ago
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RE: "feet" in CAD

ok, indeed they are.I checked my environment variables on Carlson on ye olde work laptop:INSUNITS 0INSUNITSDEFSOURCE 1INSUNITSDEFTARGET 1So, searching...

14 years ago
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RE: "feet" in CAD

not gonna matter in 5000' unless you are monitoring something from that far away.(matters in scaling those shiny state plane coordinates though.)I gue...

14 years ago
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RE: "feet" in CAD

well, that's what I'm wondering. Carlson support seems to think theirs is hardwired to US survey feet ...Radar -- not concerned about meters to feet. ...

14 years ago
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RE: "feet" in CAD

Big ol' difference when you are scaling state plane coordinates from the origin ... hence my concern. I'm scaling something that should fit and doesn'...

14 years ago
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