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Topics: 11 / Replies: 645
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RE: Gps on BM

I see why 4 hours is required with 10 GPS tracked. But with 45 on a full constellation, 2 hours should be fine.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

@richard-germiller?ÿ ?ÿ Yes, you did not know it was linen until you had to erase the same thing twice.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: That Pythagoras guy

That's why they don't build sidewalks on college campuses until AFTER students have been there a year. Because, 'the shortest distance between two obj...

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

ON NO, I was 15 for 15 "Used to, but not anymore", then the HP41 last one. I still use mine to run quick traverses. But I have stopped using the print...

3 years ago
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RE: How's business?

@bruce-small?ÿ If you are two months behind, work 40-hours a week, won't in two months you'll still be two months behind??ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: I Have T02 Files, But No Vectors

Very good thread. I am not familiar with the GNSS side of Trimble, but now I feel like I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Would you stop surveying if you won the lottery?

@james-fleming?ÿ ?ÿI don't have a mortgage, kids are grown, how did I declare fellow professionals a pariah?????ÿ Do you consider developers as profes...

3 years ago
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RE: Would you stop surveying if you won the lottery?

No, but I would trade in equipment faster and sub-out the drafting. If there was a project I liked, I would buy it just so I could survey it.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: The Myth of Mobility for Professional Land Surveyors

@holy-cow?ÿ ?ÿ Which is why the GLO Manuel is no longer referenced in Florida Surveying Standards of Practice. Any duface can prorate two intersecting...

3 years ago
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RE: The Myth of Mobility for Professional Land Surveyors

I don't know. Just because you pass the test, does not mean you have a clue about local boundary situations. Being registered in a state not contiguou...

3 years ago
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RE: Insurance Co. client without a contract?

@bruce-small?ÿ ?ÿ Yes, And at the end of most conversations, "OK, text me that change, request, addition, go-ahead, revision........"

3 years ago
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RE: Drunken surveyors and Montana

Butte, Idaho and Billings is the capital of Montana.?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: Best job description line from a surveyors wanted ad on craigslist.......

Sounds like real work. That ad may only get surveyors. "Closing new opportunities." I seem to do that too often. When the applicant is totally wron...

3 years ago
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RE: I surveyed that

@brad-ott?ÿ ?ÿ My gait change has been nearly identical to my pants waist size change.

3 years ago
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RE: I surveyed that

My wife hates it when we go on road trips. I stop to look at brass disks we walk by or start counting under my breath as we walk.

3 years ago
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RE: Why?

SIDE NOTE?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿI once worked for a company that was paid well to drag and measure with a 100-foot tape the distance along the ground where an underg...

3 years ago
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RE: Why?

Because I am old and dense. "Deeds on the ground" and plane above (aerial power lines) and below (subsuface pipelines).?ÿ

3 years ago
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RE: RTK bluetooth to wifi camera

@frank-willis?ÿ ?ÿI do that a couple of times a week; always sub-centimeter. What I am using does not respond well on this site, but I am happy with i...

3 years ago
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RE: RTK bluetooth to wifi camera

If you use your cell phone to take the picture, any android GNSS software will mock the receiver's coordinate to log with the picture. A picture will ...

3 years ago
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RE: Carlson SurvPC & Trimble SPS930

Carson has its own Machine Control Software instead of SurvPC.?ÿ

3 years ago
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