AI Assistant
Activity
 
Notifications
Clear all
jhframe
jhframe
@jim-frame
Member Founder, Sustainer
Joined: July 1, 2010 10:44 am
Last seen: September 17, 2026 7:22 pm
Topics: 465 / Replies: 7012
Reply
RE: How do you bid a Topographic Survey?

I'll do NTE is the client insists, but it's very rare for me come in under the NTE figure. More often I go over it, in which case I show the breakdow...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Trimble 5700 - yikes!

mattb, post: 417263, member: 8629 wrote: I've all but had it with trimble. Topcon and Leica seem to just work no matter how old they are.I agree that ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Ethics in estimates

sjc1989, post: 417088, member: 6718 wrote: If the scope varies slightly or past experience indicates a large pleasure/pain factor discrepancy between ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Ethics in estimates

John Putnam, post: 417048, member: 1188 wrote: I have only done this a couple of times and only for good, long term clients that had a way better than...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Going solo

For my own retirement calculation, I have me dropping dead at age 90 with no assets left other than the house. If my wife is still around, she'll eit...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Ethics in estimates

John Putnam, post: 417024, member: 1188 wrote: If I am asked to team exclusively I will contemplate it but there has to be something in it for me.I've...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Anyone out there take ‰ÛÏThe Leap‰Û into the Snap Inc.‰Ûªs IPO?

My general take on IPOs continues to be that they exceed my risk profile. I've been spectacularly wrong on some (e.g. Google), but right on others. ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Going solo

Make that $126k per year. (I had plugged the $2M number into my own retirement spreadsheet, and neglected to account for the delay until retirement.)

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Anyone out there take ‰ÛÏThe Leap‰Û into the Snap Inc.‰Ûªs IPO?

I advised my mother-in-law not to buy the Google IPO. She's losing her memory, but she hasn't forgotten about that.

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Going solo

FrozenNorth, post: 416821, member: 10219 wrote: $2,000,000 in equities so that you can expect roughly $80,000 a year in passive income at age 65Unless...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: How do you bid a Topographic Survey?

I use GE for recon all the time, but it's no substitute for a site walk. I've blown cost proposals more than a few times relying only on satellite ph...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: FCC License Emission Designator (RTK Radios)

I'm also ignorant of the details, but for what it's worth, here's the scoop on my RTK radio license:

10 years ago
Reply
RE: UPRR Valuation Map contact

Kent McMillan, post: 314978, member: 3 wrote: Ms. Kendall GiwoynaMap LibrarianUnion Pacific [email protected] initiated...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Archer 2 vs. Allegro 2

I'll echo the benefits of a full keyboard. I went from an AllegroCX (screen died, I still think I might be able to fix it, just haven't had time) to ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: diy CORS?

Shawn Billings, post: 416253, member: 6521 wrote: You'd actually have to activate RTK so the Triumph-2 would cost $5000.I want sure about that, but sp...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: State Plane RTK

plazio, post: 416112, member: 193 wrote: Move the base, Start the base at a 2nd Here, Occupy the points again.Assuming the base has a clear sky view, ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: BFE Interpolation

johnhls, post: 416072, member: 3240 wrote: I can see what they are trying to do to squeeze as much out of owners as possible. I have another one for a...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: diy CORS?

Shelby H. Griggs PLS, post: 416089, member: 335 wrote: ANY dual frequency receiver should work, you could probably be out $10K or less these days for ...

10 years ago
Reply
RE: ID. or O.D.

I call out the nominal ID. The actual ID is slightly larger, e.g. a 3/4" Schedule 40 iron pipe has an ID of 0.824".

10 years ago
Reply
RE: Nice 12 volt connectors

No argument that Powerpole connectors are excellent and a near-standard in the amateur radio and RC communities, but I've found that two-prong SAE con...

10 years ago
Page 146 / 374