I hope you will forgive my excitement, and overly active posting on your forum

Nate The Surveyor

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As a bit of explanation, I have remained BEHIND the performance curve, all my life.
Used Transit and tape, (Yes, for real, in an active, surveying program) until 1986) then, went to a 2 piece unit, TM 20c. with K&E Autoranger on top.
Then, a NEW Topcon GTS 3. (That was heaven!)
Then, 3 LOCUS units, with Topcon.
Then, 3 MORE Locus units, with a Leica narrow beam reflectorless, and an ATV.
Then, Topcon Legacy E units.
Then, the Javad T2 base, and LS rover.
And, now, as other constellations come up, I simply don't want to "Live 10 yrs behind any more".
I want to KNOW, and stay current. Maybe even ahead.

I still drive an older 1993 Dodge 4wd diesel truck. With ATV in back.

I'm ok with being "behind" in my work rig. (It needs a new cab!) but, I cannot stand to lag too far in quality and performance, with my survey gear any more.

I want to stay current. And, I am finding others, who, like me, want to stay current.

Thanks for putting up with me.

Love the gear.

N
 

Shawn Billings

Shawn Billings
5PLS
I looked at mission planning with Galileo a couple of days ago. There were two times during the day that had 4 sv's in view. I don't recall for how long, maybe an hour or two each time. As Toivo said, it'll be good soon.

Your t2 will track L1 only for beidou and Galileo. I don't know if that will help much when the LS firmware eventually uses those constellations, but it might.

Beidou, I only see a couple of them from time to time. I'm sure it will be good eventually, but for now I'm encouraged by the launch cycle for galileo.
 

Nate The Surveyor

Well-Known Member
I will also say, that I am barely becoming aware of the enormous work, to bring a USABLE product to market, like this.
I think in terms of "Just do this". And, think it's done. Whereas, it is not always that simple.
I'm dreaming of combining STAKEOUT and COLLECT. MOST of the time, they are needed, right next to each other. In my mind, they are used that way. Almost all collecting, we need to know where to look first. And, almost all stakeout, we also need to store what we found, either nearby, or even just a relevant object. Or after setting the monument. At least, I always do it like that.
And, knowing where it landed, can be slightly different from where we thought we'd place it.
N
 

Nate The Surveyor

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I'm still at it David. See what I just posted over on the DPOS page.... thanks for the encouragement! I sure don't want the programmers to get discouraged. I believe this product can go to the moon and back, if we provide it ideas, and the programmers keep doing it!
 

Nistorescu Sorin

Active Member
What if, about one year from now, both your (Galileo) carrier phase and range measurements will almost become equitable types of observables in terms of accuracy? And a single-frequency system E5(with E5a and E5b sub-carriers) will be able to eliminate the ionospheric propagation error?

Just to add that Triumph LS is already capable for combining E5a and E5b (resulting AltBOC signal), which will allow high accuracy positioning and great multipath reduction compared with separate E5A or E5B signals. The same for Triumph 1M with unlocked Galileo option.

Nate, compared to my old, brave Triumph 1 receiver, you are far away AHEAD of the performance curve. I will decide somehow to upgrade after Galileo initial service starts. As someone well said, we will see products with an incredible ratio between (performance+availability)/silicon.

And don't forget your old, brave Dodge 4wd diesel truck..!
 

Phillip Lancaster

Active Member
I also had a dodge. A W250 single cab automatic. Loved the engine but hated the single cab and automatic. Sold it a couple of months ago. The kid that bought it said "Whats wrong with it". LOL! I told him everything but the engine. Only way I came out ahead was the Cummins. Great engine terrible truck. At that time Dodge was at least two decades behind the rest. I believe Cummins saved that company from ruins.

Nistorescu Sorin - With that LS capability of the altBOC. Will the LS be hindered using an T1 as a base? Will having a 1M as a base be better at the combined signal or will it even matter?
 

Nate The Surveyor

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My son has his first. A '93 D-250. extend cab, aftermarket auto. A bit more work... and he can pull trailers, and tractors...
 

Nistorescu Sorin

Active Member
Phillip, this is only my opinion.

- for the moment, a 5Hz base-rover system from Javad represent a unique high-end surveying solution that is allready capable to cancel ionosphere and troposphere errors and provide confident results.

- signals like AltBOC are more related to a PPP scenario and the receivers could also be useful in standalone configuration. They will surely challenge traditional systems because the focus is to add PPP techniques as a standard surveying procedure. And they'll become cheap..

- about my old T1 receiver, I can benefit for E1 and E5a (no E5b as communicated to me) but even in this situation T1 will ensure greater robustness to support LS. For 1M, my wish is to become as small as T2..

- now just imagine: http://www.ecapture.es/eyesmap.html
 
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