At the risk of proving an adage I learned shortly after beginning my employment with Hayes Instrument Company almost 23 years ago, the adage being tha...

I have worked at Hayes Instrument Company for almost 23 years.?ÿ I remember someone sending a prism pole to my then boss, Eddie Clanton, to try out th...

My experience with this is that the instrument must be configured to communicate the data stream through the serial port.?ÿ To set it up initially, th...

There's no way you could ever sufficiently anticipate the wrinkles and side jaunts such a deal would involve.?ÿ Reminds me of a tract I worked on for ...

The answers above are valid but overlook one of your stated requirements, namely: cm accuracy. You cannot obtain cm accuracy from any unit on the mar...

I agree with Lee's deduction.?ÿ That is about the shift I have seen between NAD83(2011) and the previous datum correlation.

@dougie, or you may have been closer to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, whereas @MightyMoe was nearer the Point of Commencement...

Your post about the GTS-815A prompts the question as to whether it is equipped with the instrument handle required to work with the RC-2R.?ÿ You can e...

If you have access to an RTK network, there's no reason you couldn't just connect to the Base as a network rover and store a network corrected positio...

I would look at the condition of the receptacle the external antenna cable plugs into.?ÿ The (fingers) pieces that surround the central post that make...

Also, the Sokkia version of that adapter is better because the height is adjustable and the price is better, by a considerable margin.?ÿ The Sokkia ve...

One of the main advantages I see in having the plummet in the adaptor instead of the tribrach, especially a rotating one, and with a real level vial i...

Changing your rod height enough to make a re-observation or stake-out to the stored observation is also a good strategy to reveal a multipath solution...

If you can connect the Legacy E to TRU (Topcon Receiver Utility), look at info under Receiver Managing and see what board version it has.?ÿ If it says...

The total station must be set to "External Link" mode under "Remote Control" under "Programs" which should be accessible by pressing the F6 function k...

The firmware question can be determined by connecting it to a computer with a serial cable and using the Topcon Receiver Utility [TRU] software to asc...

Not certain what you are asking, but I interpret it to be have the same codes in the Ranger that you use in the office.?ÿ That once was as easy as edi...

I suspect that it may not have had the firmware update to address the GPS week/year rollover that happened a while back.?ÿ The firmware update is some...

i checked with someone more familiar with the SP-80 workings that I am.?ÿ I learned the the RCTMv3.0 protocol does support the corrections for Galileo...

If you have always run the SP-80 (or BRx7 for that matter) as a network rover, then perhaps you're unfamiliar with the radio settings in SurvPC.?ÿ In ...