@rover83 correct, the 900 MHz spread spectrum is different, I guess I should of made that distinction to refer to typical UHF frequencies in the 400 M...

@nate-the-surveyor similar situation between the driver of a class A motor home and the driver of a bus, one is tested and licensed, the other not. Is...

@nate-the-surveyor here is a link to the brief wiki explanation. They aren't quite on par with mechanical IMU's yet (as far as drift rates), but da...

And in the USA, a frequency is required to be licensed for transmitting, regardless of power output, yes even 0.5W. SHG

@eric-kara After a bit of testing, are the photo points still 0.1 feet? Is that true for well defined paint stripes, angle points in parking lot lines...

@steinhoff I don't believe any commercial processor will solve without GPS as primary constellation, RTK engine for instance on my rovers will NOT sol...

@john-hamilton agree with GLONASS signals generally being noisy. I quite often ditch those, especially in our airbone data sets. I believe even if us...

I do NOT own a tilt compensated GNSS receiver yet, but from reading it sounds like at least the Leica GS18T does NOT need calibrating (other than a bu...

VHF/UHF to include 900Mhz are basically line of sight radios, more power and better antennas help, but you may be expecting too much depending on grou...

@bill93 you are correct, that is what I get for posting late at night 🙂 It is still a 6db loss in the cable, no matter the pre-amp gain. If the pre-...

@john-hamilton I made that decision in 2016, got my Technician and a month later my General. The Extra question pool changed on July 1st, so I got bus...

Way late to party John, but couple comments. 1st off, I hope that is something better than RG8 for use at GPS frequencies. Let's compare the loss to L...

@mark-mayer unless they are Leica 🙂 I have a prism pole about 1995 vintage that uses the same leg mechanism as the Leica bi-pod and pole tripods, hav...

Not much (due to not having an objective filter, who wants to fry the EDM?), but I have observed Polaris for azimuth a couple times in the last 10 yea...

As others have said, that is likely going to require a new hardware modem, there is a slight chance it is software changeable, check with Trimble to f...

@murphy the rural worthless land attitude has created a ton of future work for surveyors by previous surveyors. When something valuable is discovered ...

Correct, and for that reason my amateur radio use LiFePo4 batteries are under the airline limits in case I want to take a radio on vacation 🙂 For su...

I have an OmniDrive (USB version), works good and is only solution for the older PCMCIA-SRAM memory cards used in Leica gear in the early TPS series. ...

If you really want to step up your game, get a LiFePo4, flat voltage discharge, can use near 100% of capacity without damage, charges fast, lighter we...