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paul-in-pa
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RE: Beidou vs Galileo

@allen-wrench Depends on whose receiver and how much extra you want to pay. Why pay for something that may in fact dilute your precision? Paul in PA

5 years ago
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RE: Beidou vs Galileo

Beidou is designed for use in China and there is a good number of their satellites in polarized orbits that concentrate over China. Plus there geostat...

5 years ago
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RE: Indian Reservations Blocking State and Federal Highways

@true-corner The Indians did not claim to own the land, however by many treaties the US did give them ownership to land that was then subsequently ta...

5 years ago
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RE: Indian Reservations Blocking State and Federal Highways

Since the Native Peoples are considered Sovereign Nations the US has no Constitution right to Eminent Domain but has stolen that right of way land in ...

5 years ago
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RE: SIT in Dallas Looking for RPLS exam Help

Personal opinion. If you fail to pass the test in 3 tries you should be required to add more education to your experience before being allowed 3 more ...

5 years ago
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RE: One receiver uses a satellite and another wouldn't?

@bill93 Bill, check to verity you have the exact same firmware in both receivers. Plus PRN 19 is SVN 59, which has been buggy from launch. As I reca...

5 years ago
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RE: Ideal Monitor Size for duals

So I am still happily using a 19", but am ready for a 27". Once the screen is bigger you cannot view it as a whole without eye shifting. I am nearsigh...

5 years ago
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RE: One receiver uses a satellite and another wouldn't?

4000s are older receivers that go through the constellation looking for satellites at a very slow pace. That is the main reason I stopped using my Z-1...

5 years ago
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RE: ATMs

@jimcox She wouldn't fit in that circle anyway. BTW, the Plexiglas industry must be booming.  Paul in PA

5 years ago
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RE: Don't you just love RFP specs.

@mightymoe But it is those small jobs that the specs were originally written for. Anyway at a mile apart the geoid, which you have no control over, k...

5 years ago
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RE: Don't you just love RFP specs.

@mightymoe Typically monitoring wells are within a small area  and the 0.01' is needed as the water gradient can be quite small. Paul in PA

5 years ago
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RE: SD Card for 4 Hour Static Sessions (GPS on BM)

The manual should give you more than a hint. At this time I doubt you could even find a SanDisk Card that would not hold 24 hrs of 1 second data. 8 ho...

5 years ago
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RE: A more permanent TP

Years ago I worked for a company that used 3/8" rebar with a cap for long lasting rebar, still have a couple bouncing aroun the garage but no T.P. cap...

5 years ago
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RE: Verify Building Column Grid and Plumb

Welding on steel structural members could lead to his liability for structural failure. Welding structural steel requires advanced skill and follow up...

5 years ago
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RE: ITRF's utility

I thought we already had a "geodesist' on this board? Paul in PA

5 years ago
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RE: Dr Charles Schwarz has died

I never met him, but we had quite the correspondence going when he was developing OPUS-RS. I had stumbled across some information about the OPUS-RS be...

5 years ago
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RE: Thank you John Hamilton

Newer than 6/10/2019? Paul in PA

5 years ago
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RE: Old Apple Trees

Later day "Johnny Appleseeds". John Chapman planted orchards of apple trees in western PA, Ohio, Ontario, Indiana and Illinois. They were tended and ...

5 years ago
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RE: Amusing Monument Description

Good indication it was not surveyed in the field. I would assume the scrivener was combining descriptions from separate deeds. I had gathered deeds fo...

5 years ago
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RE: Fax

I cannot remember when I last received a FAX, 10 years or more. I think it was 6 years ago I dropped the FAX phone line. My internet was over that lin...

5 years ago
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