I recently purchased a second LS and wanted to run a test on a small job.
I know there have been talks of running 2 bases but have not had the opportunity to test it.
So yesterday I had a small job to start and I set two nails with the VRS network. I set my T2 on one nail and set my LS base on the second nail. I started my T2 as normal with base rover setup. In my rover I did a copy as on my UHF profile and changed the frequency to match what I had set my LS base to transmit and called it UHF LS Base. I then started my LS base on the second nail by recalling the VRS coordinate of the nail. I went into the collect screen on the LS base and started recording a stand alone position (since it was in base mode) with raw data turned on. I then started locating property corners as normal. I would shoot the property corner 3 times with the T2 and then switch to my UHF Ls Base profile and then shoot the same point 3 times with the LS base. My typical distance to last when switching from one base to the other was only 0.02'.
Fast forward to this morning. In my rover I went into points and highlighted a point that I had shot using the LS base. I then clicked the additional action button at the top left and hit recover base point and renamed that point the same number that I had collected the static file in the LS base. I then went to my LS base and went to files, files collected with points and highlighted GNSS Raw Data and exported the raw data file to a flash drive. I inserted the flash drive into my rover and went to points. I highlighted the LS Base point and hit the additional action button and hit attach GNSS file. I then hit recover DPOS session and BAM!! I now have a base point that I can DPOS all of my second base shots from.
I know this is a long work around but it did work until things can be made easier by the development team. The reason I find this to be so important is in the difficult environments that we push these things into a second base with a second vector to all points just increases our confidence in the location of the property corners we are locating.
I know there have been talks of running 2 bases but have not had the opportunity to test it.
So yesterday I had a small job to start and I set two nails with the VRS network. I set my T2 on one nail and set my LS base on the second nail. I started my T2 as normal with base rover setup. In my rover I did a copy as on my UHF profile and changed the frequency to match what I had set my LS base to transmit and called it UHF LS Base. I then started my LS base on the second nail by recalling the VRS coordinate of the nail. I went into the collect screen on the LS base and started recording a stand alone position (since it was in base mode) with raw data turned on. I then started locating property corners as normal. I would shoot the property corner 3 times with the T2 and then switch to my UHF Ls Base profile and then shoot the same point 3 times with the LS base. My typical distance to last when switching from one base to the other was only 0.02'.
Fast forward to this morning. In my rover I went into points and highlighted a point that I had shot using the LS base. I then clicked the additional action button at the top left and hit recover base point and renamed that point the same number that I had collected the static file in the LS base. I then went to my LS base and went to files, files collected with points and highlighted GNSS Raw Data and exported the raw data file to a flash drive. I inserted the flash drive into my rover and went to points. I highlighted the LS Base point and hit the additional action button and hit attach GNSS file. I then hit recover DPOS session and BAM!! I now have a base point that I can DPOS all of my second base shots from.
I know this is a long work around but it did work until things can be made easier by the development team. The reason I find this to be so important is in the difficult environments that we push these things into a second base with a second vector to all points just increases our confidence in the location of the property corners we are locating.