Mark O, post: 425870, member: 11591 wrote: I appreciate all the responses. Unfortunately I already deleted the file, but I will record another file at...

As a rookie chairman I quickly learned how much things like chains and mag locators cost. Nothing worse than having 3 chains in the truck. It'd take a...

rberry5886, post: 426199, member: 232 wrote: Went into the Rinex file and checked it and resent....got message back about precise orbits..I'll resend ...

The 15C has got to be the best calculator ever. I got mine from my boss at my first survey job in '78. It's in my car, on my coffee table, or shirt po...

Then there's the due south is 0å¡ Azimuth, north is 180å¡, which was UCG&GS protocol back then. How many remember that?

Sergeant Schultz, post: 424941, member: 315 wrote: Me, too! It kind of proves that even a halfway thorough understanding of practical mathematics is ...

How do you monument to 0.01'Scribe line on s brass plate set in concrete? he must've had a 95% confidence region of 0.01'.

My favorite is the aerial mapping spec. (Marketing people don't get it):"Flight altitude 20,000 ft (6096.012 m)"

Sort of makes multiple receiver, phase differential, static baseline, network adjustment, 7 parameter afine transformation for orthimetric heights gps...

When working internationally you cans sites on SOPAC almost everywhere. It's amazing. Even domestic. One our project managers was pointing out that th...

Nate The Surveyor, post: 422169, member: 291 wrote: Another option is to order a prism Pole from a reputable company Baseline or whoever. Hayes instru...

First bee sting today. Does that count?

I think it makes sense for standards. Like.. Line work should be black for primary/original work, and dark grey for underlying ancillary data.Light co...

I guess that way if the contractor makes a 1/2 ft mistake he can still blame survey if the staking is 1/4 inch off.

thebionicman, post: 421346, member: 8136 wrote: Very cool. Notice the double scales? One measures azimuth and the other is for deflection. That instru...

thebionicman, post: 421320, member: 8136 wrote: That piece is likely 6400 per circle. We loved them for the 'mil relation formula'. One mil equals 1 m...

Fortunately calling a bronze disc a brass cap usually isn't source of confusion. I think brass is yellower, and bronze could pass for gold. I scratch ...

thebionicman, post: 421311, member: 8136 wrote: Back in the day we would use a magnetic external scale transit called an aiming circle. You pointed it...

thebionicman, post: 421171, member: 8136 wrote: When the kill radius of your cannon is 20 meters you can lose a little precision here and there. Kill ...

thebionicman, post: 421171, member: 8136 wrote: When the kill radius of your cannon is 20 meters you can lose a little precision here and there. Kill ...