Okay,?ÿ If these things worked so great why did everyone switch to pin finders??ÿ I remember be taught how to use my Brunton compass to search for a m...

@bstrand?ÿ Now I feel old.

@jed?ÿ You're going to need Nate's gear for this point.

@ppm?ÿ Better get Mark on that.

@notsomuch?ÿ I was an engineering schools wet dream.?ÿ Almost a perfect score on the math section of the SAT and barely half that in the other sectio...

Not brand specific, but I would recommend using a good antenna (not a rubber duck antenna) mounted as high as possible at the base to get the best pos...

I love the part at 4 minutes in where he has to stand on a bucket to see the bubble.?ÿ Reminds me of an former colleague that, on occasions, would hav...

If you are looking for cm location on your photos, how are you positioning the camera??ÿ Unless you have some kind of mount on the rod or tripod you a...

@mike-marks?ÿ Personally, I've never understood the hesitance turn flat angles.?ÿ As for the precision of angle measurements between a modern MS60 a...

You can not reliably resect off of two points with any level of confidence.?ÿ Don't get me wrong, Resections have their place it is just not the first...

Gene, Message me and I can give you a link to a copy of the EXE I received from Leica.?ÿ I also have created a GEM file covering the western US.?ÿ I ...

There is now way to improve precision by adding additional points to a baseline and turning it into a traverse or network.?ÿ As for the monument ties,...

@protracted?ÿ Bonus field trip points if you visits Powell's Books which is literally just down the road.?ÿ

Several decades ago I had a couple of co-workers get hitched at the Willamette Stone.?ÿ Seemed appropriate since they are both surveyors.?ÿ The park w...

@mightymoe?ÿ That was me on Thursday, with the exception the that rod with bipod was on the ground and I was standing precariously on my tippy toes o...

@robertusa?ÿ I'm a Leica shop. My only recent experience with trying to configure Trimble radios was on a remote jobsite with daytime contact to the ...

Had a field tech years ago that wrote 'silk fence instead of 'silt'.?ÿ The contractor, and everyone else, started calling him Silky until he left the ...

@rj-schneider It is ludicrous that you need to take a trimble receiver in to the dealer to add frequencies.?ÿ

Radios are the Achille's heel of RTK in populated areas.?ÿ Years ago I switched for UHF to spread spectrum for RTK.?ÿ That option was eliminated with ...

How is not using the original GLO distances in proportioning any easier than using the same data from a newer survey?