Harold Dendy
Member
I was working in rural Clay County in Northeast Mississippi today. My convenient base station setup was in a pasture with a herd of about 20+ cows. They were on the other side of the pasture, and seemed to be happily munching away on fresh green grass.
I got my T3 communicating with my LS+ using Bluetooth and UHF, got green lights on my “collect” screen, and was good to go. I worked for a few hours collecting a few hard points using the new “canopy” collect style and the rest using the “precise topo” collect style. I was standing on two logs I had thrown in a ditch with about one foot deep of water and out about four feet from the bank to an iron pin that I needed to locate. I managed not to fall in, and was collecting my point when I noticed the yellow flashing box on my screen.
Wups, the base has moved.
I suspected curious cows, so I went back to my ATV, drove to the base station, and confirmed my suspicions. A herd of cows must have given my base station on a two-meter tripod a really good and curious inspection, and had knocked it over. It broke my Bluetooth antennas and knocked the rubber cover off the UHF antenna. And to show their contempt for a strange object in their pasture, one of them took a dump about two meters away and had his buddy knock my base station tripod over into the fresh pile. I retrieved my tripod and T3, went to the stock pond, cleaned the green stuff off with a rag soaked in pond water as best I could. There was green stuff lodged in the locking levers on the tripod head, and crammed into the joints pretty good. Oh, well. I cleaned it up and moved on.
My question is this: I need to DPOS today’s data. Has anyone had issues with running DPOS on a base station that was moved? The last 20 minutes or so of my roughly four hours of base data has been compromised. Will JUSTIN data processing at JAVAD ”see” that the data has an anomaly at the end of my base data file and automatically remove the bad data? Will I need to “fix,” or edit my data before I send it off to DPOS? How in the world would I do that? Need comments and suggestions, please. I think that only one point will be bad, and I collected new data on it from a new base setup on my hard points and the old base point, just to compare the numbers.
I got my T3 communicating with my LS+ using Bluetooth and UHF, got green lights on my “collect” screen, and was good to go. I worked for a few hours collecting a few hard points using the new “canopy” collect style and the rest using the “precise topo” collect style. I was standing on two logs I had thrown in a ditch with about one foot deep of water and out about four feet from the bank to an iron pin that I needed to locate. I managed not to fall in, and was collecting my point when I noticed the yellow flashing box on my screen.
Wups, the base has moved.
I suspected curious cows, so I went back to my ATV, drove to the base station, and confirmed my suspicions. A herd of cows must have given my base station on a two-meter tripod a really good and curious inspection, and had knocked it over. It broke my Bluetooth antennas and knocked the rubber cover off the UHF antenna. And to show their contempt for a strange object in their pasture, one of them took a dump about two meters away and had his buddy knock my base station tripod over into the fresh pile. I retrieved my tripod and T3, went to the stock pond, cleaned the green stuff off with a rag soaked in pond water as best I could. There was green stuff lodged in the locking levers on the tripod head, and crammed into the joints pretty good. Oh, well. I cleaned it up and moved on.
My question is this: I need to DPOS today’s data. Has anyone had issues with running DPOS on a base station that was moved? The last 20 minutes or so of my roughly four hours of base data has been compromised. Will JUSTIN data processing at JAVAD ”see” that the data has an anomaly at the end of my base data file and automatically remove the bad data? Will I need to “fix,” or edit my data before I send it off to DPOS? How in the world would I do that? Need comments and suggestions, please. I think that only one point will be bad, and I collected new data on it from a new base setup on my hard points and the old base point, just to compare the numbers.
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