Wow, it never occurred to me to NOT work in the rain with a GPS unit. Now a lightning storm is a different story. In 1986 on my very first GPS project...

gschrock, post: 358876, member: 556 wrote: Thank you John! Many beers owed. I only had a few left and gave those to a university that uses them campai...

It'll never happen...the firmware that is...they want you to buy a new receiver. Like I said, I have newer receivers, and use them constantly. My favo...

Here is a fix for this problem. I am offering a program to fix the problem, similar to the fixdat program I wrote for the TGO date problem. This probl...

This was disturbing news, because I do have some older units that still work just fine, 2 4700's and 1 4400. We rarely use the 4400, but I do use the ...

StLSurveyor, post: 358199, member: 7070 wrote: Remember getting licensed is just the beginning - a minimum level a competency is all it signifies... I...

An interesting fact is that the meter (in the US, metre everywhere else) was originally designed to be 1/10,000,000 of the distance from the equator t...

Scott Bordenet, post: 358582, member: 10097 wrote: I am trying to connect to the AT&T cellular network with Surveyor Controller and R8 model 2 con...

The only reason to do the altitude method is if you don't have accurate time. The results are degraded by the uncertainty in the refraction correction...

When I went to school (30 years ago) there were a number of NGA (DMA at the time) grad students there, they were FULLY paid and complained that they w...

I agree with Jim, that is what I would think it means.

A level I carry over my shoulder on the tripod. A total station...never. It goes in a padded backpack, or the instrument case. If I am only moving a s...

use teqc.

I got it to work normally again by clearing the cache. Even though I uninstalled it and reinstalled the program, I guess something was in the cache. I...

Interesting. I will break out my laptop and see how it behaves. Must be an issue on my desktop.

First, I admit I am not an expert in OPUS Projects, although I did take the managers training a few years ago. That said, i recently did an FAA survey...

I have done three surveys at Devils Lake. The first time I was there I was really surprised. I had not heard about it before i got there, but I read a...

I have often wondered what modern day surveyors would do if GPS went down. I think many have become so dependent on GPS that they would not know how t...