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RE: Digging up old problems, Relative vs Absolute APC heights

@olemanriver I'll try to illustrate my question. Why does the APC change when a 10cm extension is used between the tribrach and the gnss antenna? 2 t...

2 years ago
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RE: Digging up old problems, Relative vs Absolute APC heights

Along these lines, why does the APC value change depending on whether or not you use an extension between the tribrach and antenna?

2 years ago
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RE: ALTA Measurement Standards

@joe-the-surveyor The value of "standards" or "requirements" can often times be judged by the consequences of not following those standards or require...

2 years ago
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RE: Localization vs site calibration

Iƒ??m curious though if I set 4 points with RTS, then run levels between them and adjust the elevations, then what would the vertical residuals look l...

2 years ago
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RE: Closure of Meander Line for Lake

Can you also create these meander lines in the way you describe and meet the significant figures test for the acreage also? If that produces closure, ...

2 years ago
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RE: Localization vs site calibration

Calibration is a legacy process from the early days of GPS RTK to allow the user to "get on" existing control (it can be done and is better done using...

2 years ago
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RE: Published BM?

It is .023' low? The other benchmark you are using isn't .023' high? How did you determine which one was wrong?

2 years ago
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RE: Holy Cow!

I take that as a polite way of stating that certain participants here are experts on BS. Does that BS stand for Bovine Science? ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

Do you still have their phone number? I'd like to call them and tell them I'll do it for free. They just need to make sure they wait until I get there...

2 years ago
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RE: Distance from GPS Base to Radio Repeater

I'm guessing the real problem is the communication between the base and the repeater. Radio waves flow like water and don't like to go uphill. Set up ...

2 years ago
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RE: Professional Land Surveyor - California

If the ad for the job is ridiculous, then so will the working conditions be ridiculous.

2 years ago
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RE: Problem with a surveyor - fraud?

What you say might be true but you can't use a 6' digital level to distinguish the slope for a septic field. So that statement makes your argument see...

2 years ago
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RE: Massive hello from Melbourne, Australia

It would probably be too much of a coincidence if you lived in Melbourne, FL while you were there.

2 years ago
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RE: Vintage engineers tools

@dave-karoly 5140 put in a bid of $20 when the price was say $10 then someone bid $14 so 5140 was automatically at $15 and when someone bid $16 his we...

2 years ago
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RE: Old Field Books

@mightymoe That boggles my mind. How can any boundary job require 5000 pages of field book notes?

2 years ago
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RE: Buyer is pulling out, can I offer the completed survey to the land owner?

I see no reason why you can't enter into an agreement to survey this same property for the land owner. While your altruism in giving him a non certifi...

2 years ago
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RE: SIT/FS...Here we go again

Tests are easier if you trust yourself. You know the answers. Go with your first instinct and trust it to be correct. Don't second guess yourself. Don...

2 years ago
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RE: What is a Set Stone?

I'm not sure what was commonly set in Kentucky but here are a couple of pictures of stones set for the corners of mineral claims out west. ?ÿ

2 years ago
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RE: Question about GPS calibrations

If the residuals of your current calibration are relatively low you will not see much more error introduced to your point 250m beyond the "limits". Th...

2 years ago
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RE: Chain Notation

@jbstahl What am I doing wrong? 45x8"=360"=30' so 45.5=30'4" not 30' as you say in your post.

2 years ago
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