Some knucklehead turned in the last one on AC9230> AC9230 STATION RECOVERY (2005)> AC9230> AC9230'RECOVERY NOTE B...

Clearly inadequate work...> Is there a way to search by contributor to see what your count is?Not that I'm aware of.P.S. I just looked at one proj...

Clearly inadequate work...> Hands up everybody (other than John & Jerry) who has ever filed a recovery report.There are probably around 400 wit...

> KY3089'PLEASE EITHER UPDATE THE COORDINATES OR MOVE THE BENCHMARK BACK TO THE> KY3089'CORRECT LOCATIONI'm surprised (and dismayed) that NGS ...

> I'm not buying a digital level and bar-code rod to run one loop every year or two. It's not just about 'which is better'...I did, but it allows m...

> Trying to learn everything I can now make life easyer later.Personally, I wouldn't bother learning to run 3-wire levels these days. Any leveling...

What no one has explicitly recommended (unless I missed it!) is to sit down with the onsite surveyor, tell him you have some other quotes, and ask him...

Neat idea! I'll have to play around with that a bit.

> I've seen prisms like that one, on eBay for dirt cheap prices from China. But I have to wonder about quality. Leica crows about its "higher than ...

> It might depend, I think I can talk too, BUT only on a 4G network, not enough bandwidth on slower than that and I think it also device dependant,...

I agree with what Gerry said, but you can apply a few rules of thumb to help out:1. If it's a late-model receiver and being offered at a ridiculously...

CopperopolisCopperopolis is my pee-and-tea stop (unload "processed" iced tea, get some fresh iced tea) on our drive to Yosemite every summer. The new...

86 mm (+/- 1 mm) from the bottom of the quick release to the tilting axis is standard for most Leica prisms, as indicated on the diagram. As stated a...

> like I said I can adjust my antenna heights to compensateThey're designed to allow the point to contact the rod top, so in theory you shouldn't h...

As Jerry suggested, that's just a centering cap designed to keep the antenna pole point on the rounded top of the (typically) 9/16" stainless steel ro...

Try it on a Monument like this> The 1 meter extension gets the antenna well above the fence.Not that it matters for most practical purposes, but th...

> Results are from an angle-only resection. That wouldn't be my choice of methods to test this; it's too indirect. I'd set up 2 tripods (pillars w...