Just wanted to give a shoutout to lightwavetechnology.com.au who refurbished our Sokkia Gyro's, which included machining new mounts for the top of the...

I really like how Shae thinks outside the box and tries new methods, then drills down into the results. We had been using a Leica height hook to get...

You could try Brunson Calibration & Repair

In Australia, Underground mines use wall control stations, 10mm stainless tube (8mm ID) drilled into rock walls. Normally these are machined with a Le...

This is the best version to use, it doesn't require external libraries, it's licensed legally to use with any Sokkia hardware. You'll need to export...

Sokkia Link, at least the copy in the rar file, just installs and works in Windows 10, without needing any dependencies, which version of windows are ...

We have three Gyro's with SET3130R3's with the compact flash card we can copy data between the instruments in the field and computers pretty fast. T...

SDR33 predates USB   [/quote]   My bad, I should have made that clearer, the SET3030R3 has a compact flash card reader, so you can g...

  It should have a flash drive, you can copy SDR33 files to that and upload into memory and vice versa to share with your PC.  

@matthewadams When my daughter was still at university, the lecturers made them dependant on software, they didn't teach manual calculations. Me bein...

There are underground coal mines that are gassy, where explosions have been caused by an inrush from a collapsing goaf being ignited by a faulty lamp....

@jim-frame Hi Jim, there's a bundle of them for sale on ebay

  We use a Sokkia optical plummet, laser plummet should be easier to use though. You can also use a total station with a 90 degree eyepiece an...

@norman-oklahoma A mate of mine runs an MS60, but still swears by their old TS15 that they're still using.

  Which one of you posted this?

Provides an accurate north heading for azimuth based survey's underground, it has a big impact over long distances, see the paper attached. The earth...

So a quick update, we have the first gyro back from the dealer, it's a nice piece of kit and they've done a good job servicing it, the feedback I got ...

@geeoddmike This is an old thread, we're in Australia, there are a lot of baselines available here, it's also a legislative requirement to calibrat...

I set up with an arbitrary set of coordinates, complete the traverse, then analyse the observations with least squares analysis, fixing points a and b...