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john-hamilton
john-hamilton
@john-hamilton
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Joined: September 13, 2010 5:25 am
Last seen: September 16, 2026 6:32 am
Topics: 409 / Replies: 3051
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RE: Trimble cowbell battery

Shelby...Thanks for pointing that out. I have had trouble finding these in the past because I keep calling them the wrong thing!

9 years ago
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RE: Stolen Equipment North Carolina

A company I worked at in the 80's had a total station stolen FROM the office. A window was broken, they got inside and just took a total station. what...

9 years ago
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RE: Stolen Equipment North Carolina

Probably worked on a survey crew in the past...One of the reasons we don't have any signage on our vehicles. Well, we usually don't, but I will slap a...

9 years ago
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RE: Trimble Yuma 2 versus TSC3

We use both, TSC3 is smaller and easier to carry. If graphics are not needed, I prefer the TSC3. Yuma has a lot more capability, runs windows, so othe...

9 years ago
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RE: Engineering Surveying/Deformation Conference

So, anyone on the board going to INGEO? I really wish they would have combined it with INTERGEO, but they are just far enough apart in time that I can...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Geodetic Leveling Class

Yes, I read it when it first came out. I wonder if anyone has a fabricator lined up that can make the targets and mounts?

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Geodetic Leveling Class

The Trimble (Zeiss) rods are much better, in my opinion, than the Leica rods (used many years ago). Both made by the same manufacturer (Nedo), but to ...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Geodetic Leveling Class

I will agree that in a small area, relatively flat, a digital level (geodetic quality) with a good rod will achieve good results. The main difference ...

9 years ago
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RE: The cursed bridge at Malfunction Junction

I always feel that they ask for too many borings around here, now I see why they are so important. Not quite the same problem, but a few years ago an ...

9 years ago
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RE: NGS Geodetic Leveling Class

Not to pile on, but your statement "The differences are we are not using invar rods, measuring temperatures, fixed leg tripods for the level or the bi...

9 years ago
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RE: RTK Base corrections via TCP/IP instead of NTRIP?

I do this two ways. 1) using a Trimble R10, it has a built in NTrip server. I have a static IP GSM sim card in the R10, everything works fine. BTW, I ...

9 years ago
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RE: WGS84...Again

Loyal: funny that you would post that on Tuesday...I was in Rolla, MO at USGS that day and some NGS folks were there giving a presentation on NATRF202...

9 years ago
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RE: WGS84...Again

We got us a new vertical datum...found on a plan...

9 years ago
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RE: Re-establishing Control after Natural Disaster

And yet some surveyors (not all) are vehemently against using coordinates to reestablish boundary monuments...

9 years ago
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RE: Stolen R10 Tulsa, OK

I did get it back, my buddy who lives in Tulsa went to meet they guy and got it back for me. Using his cell phone number (which he gave to the surveyo...

9 years ago
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RE: Trimble cowbell battery

We use those exact batteries, but we do not use "cowbell" container. We run a lot of all day sessions, especially when we are doing deformation survey...

9 years ago
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RE: The 3-D Global Spatial Data Model: Principles and Applications, Second Edition

Jesse: I did send the errors that I had found in to Earl, I assume he took them into account in the next edition. However, I was not reading the book ...

9 years ago
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RE: Static GPS

I agree with Jim, I have done plenty of large networks using single baseline processors, and the results were equivalent to using a session processor....

9 years ago
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RE: Trimble TSC3 GSM modem

Our mifi and phone hotspots are verizon, the internal modem is AT&T. Nice to have an option when signals are weak.

9 years ago
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