Javad Training Event - Hot Springs, Ar, June 8th-9th

[Shawn Billings]

I'm planning a Javad Training Event for June 8th and 9th in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

We'll be covering a lot of ground during this 2 day event including:
Setting up Profiles
Using Verification
Reading the Collection Screen
DPOS
Coordinate Systems/Localization
Staking
Linework
and an extended Q&A

This will be eligible for 15 professional development hours to the Arkansas State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided for the event.

This is not limited to Arkansas Surveyors, anyone is welcome to attend.


-Shawn Billings, RPLS

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

Cost, and what's provided?

 

[Shawn Billings]

Hi Nate. It's in the attached flyer and form.

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

Ok. Im on cell... Power is off at home and office, wont be back on til late tonite or tomorrow. Tornadoes. Broken poles etc.

 

[Patrick Garner]

Shawn, do you have any other training in the wings for the next half year? I'm on the east coast and AZ is a long haul!

 

[Shawn Billings]

Hi Pat. It's actually Arkansas, which is still a long haul, I know.

Nothing concrete so far, but the PLS Team is hoping to do more of these in the future.

 

[Patrick Garner]

Haha. AR, not AZ. Gotcha, no problem. I'm looking into my schedule now!

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

I once had a plotter shipped to ARIZONA.... It was supposed to come to ARKANSAS. Took a few days extra, on the big truck.

Patrick, if you can make it to one of these events, they are sort of revolutionary. I say this... without attending one. How do I know? Because I am SEEING all kinds of stuff getting added to the LS with every update. The manual cannot keep up the the changes. And, so, I will get to see it HANDS ON, how to use some of this stuff.
The Javad team is a bunch of folks, that have ideas... and ARE getting them implemented.
The first iteration of a concept is sometimes PUT into the LS, and the (Smarter than me) Javad survey team, gets to monkey with it. Then, after several stages, it gets made MORE and MORE user friendly.
Some of this stuff is so revolutionary, that HOW to simplify it, is a point of argument.... BUT it is happening.
Where is it headed? Well, with more and more sats going up, and more and more signals coming down through the clouds, we are at the beginning of a simple revolution.
The "Other Brands" have disseminated the story, "GPS don't work in the woods" for years, and that is true, and 1/2 true. It is TRUE that their BRAND does not work in the woods. And, it is 1/2 true, that working in challenging env OOPS power just went off again.... LATER
N

 

[Patrick Garner]

Good stuff, Nate. And yes, JAVAD support is exceptional. I've always been a Leica guy but am walking away quickly. Their quality is great but the technology is a generation or so behind JAVAD. And worse, the Leica support is almost impossible. Staff works behind a firewall surrounded by a moat surrounded by a small army with the intent to keep pesky customers away. I've been more than blown away at the accessibility, interest and response from everyone associated with JAVAD. A different world here.

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

OK, I think my power is back on....
OK, 1/2 true.... When ANY GPS is used in the woods, it's accuracy is DEGRADED. Typically, by some .10' to 0.25' HORIZ, and .3' to a foot in the vert.
Javad has mitigated, and brought these numbers down to where it is very useful in the woods. Usually down to 0.14' horiz, and 0.30 vert.

Also, he has a mechanism to ELIMINATE the bad init errors, (These are the big ones, 1' to 10' typically).
JUST because your GPS says FIXED, does not guarantee that you have the right numbers in the feet, and 10 feet range.
Due to the process of elimination, combined with 864 channels, and 6 engines, it is simply hands down, the best in the woods GPS there is.
And, anybody with any gear, who wants to go and do a side by side comparison, WELL, I am game. I am a SURVEYOR first, then willing to discuss tools.
Show me something better? Well, make my day! I'd like that.

N

 

[Aaron S]

I'm going to do everything I can to try and make it. Never been to Arkansas before!

 

[Adam]

Shawn, do you have any other training in the wings for the next half year? I'm on the east coast and AZ is a long haul!

I'm looking at late summer/ early fall for the one I will put on. I'm in North Carolina. I hope to make it to Shawn's event too Patrick. Shawn has a ton of knowledge and I'd like pick up some of the gold nuggets he's gonna be dropping.

 

[Patrick Garner]

I do like the sound of gold nuggets.

 

[Darren Clemons]

Good stuff, Nate. And yes, JAVAD support is exceptional. I've always been a Leica guy but am walking away quickly. Their quality is great but the technology is a generation or so behind JAVAD. And worse, the Leica support is almost impossible. Staff works behind a firewall surrounded by a moat surrounded by a small army with the intent to keep pesky customers away. I've been more than blown away at the accessibility, interest and response from everyone associated with JAVAD. A different world here.

Welcome to the "new world" Patrick! That is an accurate description of what being a Javad user is. I was a Topcon guy for over 20 years and they were similar to what you describe about Leica and their support (or I should say, lack thereof ). This Javad team is really unbelievable. So many of these wonderful changes Nate has mentioned were suggested and "helped along" by US, the users. That's what's been the most enjoyable thing about this ride so far. All of us, if we want to be, are actually a part of what Nate is accurately describing as the "revolution".

 

[Steve Douty]

Are you going to have everyone bring their own system?
What is the cell coverage like at the site?

 

[Shawn Billings]

Are you going to have everyone bring their own system?
What is the cell coverage like at the site?

Yes, I hope everyone will bring their own system. Actually just bringing the LS would be fine. No need for a lot of base setups. I'll need to check on cell phone coverage.

 

[Patrick Garner]

Shawn, this is your territory and not mine, so please advise: I'd be flying in from Boston. This there an airport in Hot Springs, or do you recommend flying into Dallas and then driving up? Thanks--

 

[Nate The Surveyor]

Well, I'm about 35 miles from the event site.
I'd suggest fly in and out of little rock, (1-1/2 hrs from event site, and rent a car.
But, you can fly into hot springs, directly. It has an airport.
N

 

[Patrick Garner]

Just checked. No airlines fly from BOS to Hot Springs, but Southwest does fly into Little Rock, so that seems to be the way to roll.

 

[Patrick Garner]

Shawn, 99% I'm on board for June. That said, you couldn't have picked a more obscure location!