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jhframe
jhframe
@jim-frame
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Joined: July 1, 2010 10:44 am
Last seen: October 14, 2026 8:52 pm
Topics: 465 / Replies: 7012
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RE: GNSS purchase - logic check

Gazing into a screen at or near head height would be a non event with my multifocals. Well an uncomfortable posture, not impossible. But good posture ...

8 years ago
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RE: GNSS purchase - logic check

I wouldn't recommend the Javad to a multi-crew firm unless there was a strong commitment to training everyone on its features and sticking with it.?ÿ ...

8 years ago
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RE: Trimble 5700 to windows 10

update for windows 10 bricked windows mobile device center In my experience, "bricked" means "rendered irrecoverably useless for its design intent."?ÿ...

8 years ago
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RE: Offset Left or Right?

Being old school, to me everything is relative to the direction of the instrument. I started out that way when I began working robotic, but after a ye...

8 years ago
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RE: Offset Left or Right?

Architects designing an addition generally want to know the face of the studs on the inside and the face of the sheathing (which usually corresponds t...

8 years ago
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RE: Update: NGS' GPS on BMs Program

There's a Priority A mark remaining at Point Reyes National Seashore.?ÿ I'm surprised no one in the area has sat on it, it looks like a gorgeous site ...

8 years ago
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RE: Offset Left or Right?

The most common reason an offset right or left is made is because the object lies behind something and can not be seen from the instrument. In robotic...

8 years ago
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RE: Offset Left or Right?

What measures do you take to prevent erroneous offsets? If I know that the object's location is critical I'll figure out a way to get a redundant meas...

8 years ago
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RE: Change in Venue - Working from home

I'm in Year 26 of working out of a home office.?ÿ I've gone from being single, to being married, to being married with a child, and now back to just m...

8 years ago
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RE: Carlson Surveyors 2 and Leica TS 12

I have the Carlson Surveyor+, predecessor to the Surveyor2.?ÿ It's built-in BT radio is useless for robotic work -- as I recall, the range was less th...

8 years ago
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RE: Bipod recommendations

I have a Seco thumb-release bipod.?ÿ The only thing I don't like is the fact that it's hard to plumb quickly due to backlash in the thumb release mech...

8 years ago
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RE: Staph infection

It was taken off the shelf because it worked so well and started some trade war on the corporate level. True, if by "started some trade war" you mean ...

8 years ago
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RE: Javad's new total station

Does this instrument have an ephemeris file that can be expanded ? I have no specific information about this -- and I'm not sure what you mean by "exp...

8 years ago
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RE: Javad's new total station

Another (pretty minor) quibble that I noticed right off the bat is having the sensor assembly mounted outboard of the chassis.?ÿ This is okay mechanic...

8 years ago
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RE: "100 Year Knot"

I use the slender Bernstein's fiberglass posts with Property Mark decal I switched to these from the full-size Carsonite posts for NGS-style monumenta...

8 years ago
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RE: Highway Staking Order

I don't believe that designers even "cut cross sections" to do their design any more. I think plotting cross-sections is still SOP for USACE levee pro...

8 years ago
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RE: Javad's new total station

I agree on the cost part.For comparison, at the end of 2015 I bought a brand-new last-year's-model 2-second GeoMax robot for $18k.?ÿ I already had a d...

8 years ago
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RE: Javad's new total station

I was looking for DIN specs, but these give an indication of expected results.

8 years ago
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