Carrying elevations through a traverse...It was one of those jobs that seemed like a pain when it was going on, but looking back it was a lot of fun. ...

Yeah, and everyone who was involved is passed away long ago....

TRIG LEVELS/TS Jesse Kozlowski,PLSWe run a lot of precise levels (Dini 12, invar rods, etc), but there are plenty of times we need an elevation on an ...

Carrying elevations through a traverse...I posted about this project before, but here are some results pertinent to the current discussion (sort of). ...

Actually water level measurements can be very accurate even over long distances. If you place water in a hose, it will rise to the same level at both ...

You run it just like you would levels. You set the gun up at a random spot (not over a point), backsight to a prism on a pole, then move the pole ahea...

It Is Not GPS ChatterI use a Uniden BCD396XLT which has wideband and trunking capabilities, but you can certainly get a simpler one for under $100:Uni...

trig levels...You can use one or two prism poles with bipods. Keep sights short (under 100 meters or so) and you can easily match a level in accuracy ...

It Is Not GPS ChatterNot only will a scanner tell you if there is voice or data traffic on the channels, you will know if your radio is broadcasting c...

We do a lot of piezometers at dams, which are basically monitoring wells where they want to check the elevation of the water surface. Almost all of th...

Thanks, Dave and DuaneI doubt that anyone alive even knows that it exists, except for me. The only instrument I can find that mentions it is for that ...

It Is Not GPS ChatterGet a hand held radio scanner. Great tool if you do a lot of rtk

I use logmein.com, same type of software. Great to have as I am always forgetting something when i am out on the raod.

I am surprised a "small" fall like that damaged it. Our TSC2 took several hits from instrument height with no problem. But, last year I was walking on...

Wish that I could get $20k a day. Perhaps you mean $2K a day?

Well, the day I tell farmer Jones ....We (the country) need to start teaching and emphasizing the metric system in elementary and high school. Then, a...

I wish all these other countries would join us, don't you?

OK, on the rare occasion that I do anything with boundary, I would of course use DD MM SS. But, that is not what I do. Most of my work is engineering ...