It is typical for engineers (who nowadays take no survey courses as part of their Civil Engineering education) to OVER-SPECIFY the accuracy requiremen...

I was under the impression that they long ago stopped accepting conventional type work. I guess it is now "official".Before the advent of CORS and HAR...

Sounds like you are basing your elevations on a single benchmark. I would never trust a single benchmark without some kind of verification-such as tyi...

One possibility would be to use a scanner to scan the rail. Another would be to put paint dots on the side of the rail, and shoot reflectorless from a...

You are correct, Kent, in that (hardly) anyone ever measures long distances with an edm anymore. But, shooting a long distance is still a good way to ...

As I posted on that other board in May, I use calibrat.exe (NGS, DOS program) to compute the scale and offset after I visit the CBL each year. I loade...

I don't know if it is common. I have had my S6 since early 2006, so nearly 5 years. That was the only thing that went wrong. It is a high accuracy mod...

I did buy one new radio this year (voice) that is compliant, actually it can be programmed either way. My two old motorolas will most likely need to b...

Yes, we always do the 1:250->1:100->then 1:10, sometimes 1:1, but that can be difficult chasing the bubble around. The slightest touch will move...

After restarting a number of times, it is working OK now. But, for how long???

Yes, they both show level. He said the instrument was vibrating when he set it up, which I had seen in the past with certain tripods. But, he is using...