toivo1037
Active Member
Anyone using the Triumph-1M for static work?
I just received my pair, and I am curious as if others are always using them for static with the UHF antenna, or some other procedure. I found that all of my rods & tribrachs have exactly the same length threaded area. When threading on the receiver to any pole I found that the threads bottom out on the UHF antenna connector inside the receiver BEFORE the bottom of the brass, being the antenna reference point comes in contact with the rod. There leaves about 1/8", 3/16" of an air gap in there, which would slightly throw off the receiver height while using a fixed height rod. What really scares me is that the UHF connector in the receiver could be damaged. This leads me think that I should never mount the receiver without the UHF antenna connected.
So are there others that came across this? What do you do?
I regularly run a set of static receivers, and was thinking that if always using the UHF antenna would be required, should I edit, or make a custom antenna profile in my post processing software, and call the bottom of the UHF antenna the ARP? That may simplify using my normal fixed height 2m poles. I have 3-4 different types of receivers at my disposal, and eliminating height busts in the networks is a big help.
I just received my pair, and I am curious as if others are always using them for static with the UHF antenna, or some other procedure. I found that all of my rods & tribrachs have exactly the same length threaded area. When threading on the receiver to any pole I found that the threads bottom out on the UHF antenna connector inside the receiver BEFORE the bottom of the brass, being the antenna reference point comes in contact with the rod. There leaves about 1/8", 3/16" of an air gap in there, which would slightly throw off the receiver height while using a fixed height rod. What really scares me is that the UHF connector in the receiver could be damaged. This leads me think that I should never mount the receiver without the UHF antenna connected.
So are there others that came across this? What do you do?
I regularly run a set of static receivers, and was thinking that if always using the UHF antenna would be required, should I edit, or make a custom antenna profile in my post processing software, and call the bottom of the UHF antenna the ARP? That may simplify using my normal fixed height 2m poles. I have 3-4 different types of receivers at my disposal, and eliminating height busts in the networks is a big help.