James Suttles
Active Member
Is there a way to make the HI universal so if you change groups, say from RTN to TCP Base, that the HI stays the same. Currently, if you change from RTN to TCP Base, the HI will be whatever it was the last time you used that group.
Example, we use an LS as a base. We will login into the RTN, collect an initial base point, and then switch to TCP Base, and in that screen the base point is what was used last time for the TCP Base, not the HI of the point that was just collected in RTN. We used 2m tripods and that works to negate the issue, but they 2m tripods use a prism pole bubble, and thus comes the whole adjustment of prism pole bubbles and the amount of jarring they receive in the vehicle. So we get better results from a standard tripod and Tribrach setup, so our HI's are constantly changing from one group to the next.
We have even ran 2 bubbles on the 2M tripods, and we find that those bubbles are not easily kept in adjustment, just because of the way they are mounted on the pole.
The reason for this request, is that it just so happened we forgot to be sure the HI on the RTN, got transferred to the TCP base, once we changed groups. We fixed it, but I fear that one day will not catch the change if the HI could cross groups, that would fix the issue.
If there is not a way to make this happen, we will just have to be more vigilant in the future.
Example, we use an LS as a base. We will login into the RTN, collect an initial base point, and then switch to TCP Base, and in that screen the base point is what was used last time for the TCP Base, not the HI of the point that was just collected in RTN. We used 2m tripods and that works to negate the issue, but they 2m tripods use a prism pole bubble, and thus comes the whole adjustment of prism pole bubbles and the amount of jarring they receive in the vehicle. So we get better results from a standard tripod and Tribrach setup, so our HI's are constantly changing from one group to the next.
We have even ran 2 bubbles on the 2M tripods, and we find that those bubbles are not easily kept in adjustment, just because of the way they are mounted on the pole.
The reason for this request, is that it just so happened we forgot to be sure the HI on the RTN, got transferred to the TCP base, once we changed groups. We fixed it, but I fear that one day will not catch the change if the HI could cross groups, that would fix the issue.
If there is not a way to make this happen, we will just have to be more vigilant in the future.