Nate is more enthusiastic about his gear than most, but he's just a user, he's not on the Javad payroll. Shawn is also enthusiastic and very knowledg...

Allen Wrench, post: 383800, member: 6172 wrote: Maybe some kind of block that scales proportionate with the caliper?That's what I use as a default. H...

Larry Best, post: 383758, member: 763 wrote: You could drill and tap the ring around the pole for 2 more screws.It's not the prism pole attachment tha...

Kent McMillan, post: 383592, member: 3 wrote: you were able to center a pole in a tripod with a standard error of less than 1mmI hew closer to 1.5 mm ...

Kent McMillan, post: 383580, member: 3 wrote: does that mean that you've tested the centering accuracy of your rover pole in bipod and found that it h...

Kent McMillan, post: 383574, member: 3 wrote: The answer is that almost certainly the centering accuracy of a rover antenna on a pole, both freehand a...

Back in the day I was low-man on a crew that chained through an active railroad tunnel as part of a fiberoptic design survey. No coordination with th...

Kent McMillan, post: 383544, member: 3 wrote: measuring the angles from the tip to the top of the pole at a known distance from the pole and computing...

Jim_H, post: 383536, member: 11536 wrote: Why not RTK?That's a silly question! The answer, of course, is that it's too hard to plumb the bubble in th...

Kent McMillan, post: 383513, member: 3 wrote: it would need to be taken into account in any freehand RTK workIf it's truly freehand -- no bracing at a...

summerprophet, post: 383458, member: 8874 wrote: And failed to stamp the LYou must have used one of my stamp sets. The L flew out of a colleague's ha...

Did you miss this one? I don't think it's in the IDB, but someone had a sense of humor. Here's the shot of U43 I took in 2010:

I don't trust the tilt sensors to be useful for anything other than rough work, so I ignore them. I mount the receiver on the same pole I use with a ...

Kent McMillan, post: 383379, member: 3 wrote: To be clear, when you wrote that you "haven't done any work that relies solely on network (or other) RTK...

Were the observations that you used in the form of vectors from some pointYes, vectors from the network base, which was about 3 km distant.Can you tel...

Kent McMillan, post: 383356, member: 3 wrote: How realistic have you found the processor-estimated uncertainties of the NetworkRTK positions to be?I h...

Kent McMillan, post: 383344, member: 3 wrote: Yes, but isn't decimeter accuracy more than adequate to recover monuments?Decimeter would be better than...

Kent McMillan, post: 383294, member: 3 wrote: the main reason for using RTK is that it is fast.I believe this is true, and that static will produce a ...

algallop, post: 382681, member: 8394 wrote: Windows 7 didn't cut it, but I tried Windows XP and it started right up!That worked for me, too -- thanks ...

Lee D, post: 382056, member: 7971 wrote: Just download the latest versions of Convert to RINEX and the Trimble Configuration Utility from the Trimble ...