Besides precision of the instrument, you have less chance for human induced reading blunders.?ÿ Be they cause by eye fatigue or just plain miss readin...

Tom, You activated 'selection cycling' in AutoCAD.?ÿ When activated it lets you choose which item is selected when multiple features are present.?ÿ I...

The distance from the radio to the base should not cause a GNSS precision issue (other than a little latency). I would guess that the biggest problem ...

Why are you worried about the battery getting wet??ÿ As for the connections, I recommend anderson powerpoles.?ÿ They offer a nice secure weather tight...

What instrument are you running.?ÿ I'm not sure you can substitute any flavor of Lithium battery for a NiMH on board.?ÿ If you are only getting an hou...

I have used one of the scribs @BStrand suggested for decades.?ÿ They are great for something that does not have to be around for long.?ÿ Depending on ...

For photogrammetry purposes, nadir photos need to be pretty close to vertical.?ÿ Without my references material handy I cannot give you a proper spec ...

My great grandfather had a construction and house moving business in Edmonton back in the mid 50's.?ÿ Apparently someone took down the wrong address f...

Sometimes a bounced check is not because of insufficient funds.?ÿ I recently had a great experience with my bank of 24 years.?ÿ It seems that when I w...

The choice of UTM zones will not affect the accuracy of your GNSS per say, just the amplitude of the resulting scale factor and convergence angle at a...

The current release of Captivate is v7.03 (at least as of last week).?ÿ You should be able to run any Leica TS running Viva/Smartworks v9.x.?ÿ I use m...

Loading via the PC card is the way to go.?ÿ I do not remember ever loading trough the PC when I ran the 1100 series instruments.?ÿ As for the key, I t...

To the original question, on an 1100 with reflectorless capabilities you can toggle the red pointing laser on manually.?ÿ It is done in in the illumin...

@jim.cox More for long range communications.?ÿ I do a lot of remote work where it is good to check in with the office or connect with other crews out...

But when you are working in the bush out of cellular coverage they are way better than carrier pigeon or smoke signals.?ÿ

I'm in the practice of carrying a Garmin InReach device.?ÿ Mostly for safety and remote communications but it works well as a handheld GNSS unit as we...