Nate The Surveyor
Well-Known Member
Staking a line through rough, hard to RTK locations.
Using a telescoping 12' pole.
Turn on the light on the bottom of the LS, to flash with the sound.
I think of it in terms of BALLOONS. At the circus. A balloon is a "Conjunction of Satellite data, where a fix is to be had".These Balloons are 100% available, out in the open. But, the denser the woods, the fewer and farther between them they are. Some are small, some are large.
Your typical fixed height rod is simply sitting there, WAITING for a Balloon to come over the GPS antenna, on top the LS. When one comes over, it starts pecking.
What we are going to do is to GO LOOKING for a balloon. When it finds one, it will start pecking. It is a more aggressive method.
Use float, to get close. Typically, 2-5 ft.
Press start.
Slowly raise the pole, until it gets a shot. Let it stay there. Sometimes it goes all the way up to 12' before it starts pecking away. Sometimes, it has to come all the way back down, before it finds one.
This method of Raising and lowing the rod, LOOKING for a conjunction, (Balloon) is a more efficient method in the woods.
Granted, once you find one, you have to stay put... because it will be forced to JUMP FAIL if it knows you moved.
HOWEVER, this brings us to another point.... IF the LS had a method of measuring REAL TIME the Height of the Rover rod... it could avoid a jump fail, due to the changing height of the LS.
This way, you could hypothetically raise or lower the rod, to "Find a balloon", then when that balloon passes, go vertically searching again, for another balloon, without inducing a jump fail.
It really could make staking a line faster.
OF course, it means you will HAVE a bad elev, unless you edit the height of the LS, from the POINTS MENU after the shot. BTW, I really MISS the old way, which ALLOWED you to change a ROD HEIGHT before storing a shot.
Kind of like we are allowed to change the POINT DESCRIPTION before, during, and after a shot.
Anyway, it saves time marking line in the woods.
Go looking for a balloon.
BAM! we are good!
Nate
Using a telescoping 12' pole.
Turn on the light on the bottom of the LS, to flash with the sound.
I think of it in terms of BALLOONS. At the circus. A balloon is a "Conjunction of Satellite data, where a fix is to be had".These Balloons are 100% available, out in the open. But, the denser the woods, the fewer and farther between them they are. Some are small, some are large.
Your typical fixed height rod is simply sitting there, WAITING for a Balloon to come over the GPS antenna, on top the LS. When one comes over, it starts pecking.
What we are going to do is to GO LOOKING for a balloon. When it finds one, it will start pecking. It is a more aggressive method.
Use float, to get close. Typically, 2-5 ft.
Press start.
Slowly raise the pole, until it gets a shot. Let it stay there. Sometimes it goes all the way up to 12' before it starts pecking away. Sometimes, it has to come all the way back down, before it finds one.
This method of Raising and lowing the rod, LOOKING for a conjunction, (Balloon) is a more efficient method in the woods.
Granted, once you find one, you have to stay put... because it will be forced to JUMP FAIL if it knows you moved.
HOWEVER, this brings us to another point.... IF the LS had a method of measuring REAL TIME the Height of the Rover rod... it could avoid a jump fail, due to the changing height of the LS.
This way, you could hypothetically raise or lower the rod, to "Find a balloon", then when that balloon passes, go vertically searching again, for another balloon, without inducing a jump fail.
It really could make staking a line faster.
OF course, it means you will HAVE a bad elev, unless you edit the height of the LS, from the POINTS MENU after the shot. BTW, I really MISS the old way, which ALLOWED you to change a ROD HEIGHT before storing a shot.
Kind of like we are allowed to change the POINT DESCRIPTION before, during, and after a shot.
Anyway, it saves time marking line in the woods.
Go looking for a balloon.
BAM! we are good!
Nate
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