Where in the central valley??ÿ If you're close enough to the areas that are experiencing extreme subsidence, a project that monitors the movement on a...

I haven't tried it, but I would expect the fit between alidade and tribrach would be good given the provenance of GeoMax guns.?ÿ You'd lose the abilit...

Ha!?ÿ That's the last thing I'm going to do -- if I wanted to be a manager I'd still be working for someone else.?ÿ The only reason I ever had employe...

I doubt that buying all new equipment every year makes sense in any environment, so there has to be something more to it than "spend a lot of money on...

The chain abides! ?ÿ

I've never understood this.?ÿ Let's say you're in a 37% incremental tax bracket (28% federal, 9% state).?ÿ You buy $20,000.00 worth of equipment and y...

Not an issue for static work.?ÿ No communication between receivers!

There are certainly ways to screw up a Star*Net adjustment without seeing any red flags.?ÿ My favorite is to enter one or more ellipsoid height constr...

So, how many banks do you own?

Star*Net adjusts on the grid, then calculates LLH.?ÿ That's the reason Star*Net projects are limited to a few hundred km in extent.

I've never tried one of those converters -- never needed to -- and didn't want to recommend one because I've been told that the USB-to-parallel conver...

Adding a 9-pin COM port card to a desktop PC is easy and cheap ($25 or so).?ÿ Not so much with a laptop.

I've been bit by electric fences a dozen or times in my career.?ÿ Most were no big deal, but the time I remember most clearly involved a gate with a c...

To me that suggests that the knobs are connected to rotary encoders rather than mechanically driving the alidade, i.e. they tell the motor(s) to turn ...

Your should see my garage right now.?ÿ I bought a bunch of machine tool accessories at an auction, planning to keep one piece that I want (a rotary ta...

It's not the developers who drive up prices; it's the people who want to live there.?ÿ The developers are just responding to market demand.?ÿ They may...

Yes, sorry for not making that explicit.?ÿ In CA it's become a common term, as recent state legislation restricted the ability of local agencies to pr...

I have a Geodimeter 640 that might still have its firmware intact (I haven't used it in a few years).?ÿ If you think its firmware might be useful I'd...