Turn off UHF?

Bruce Dawson

Active Member
Okay, so I had a situation today where I was trying to tie a monument that was on the edge of my radio range. I would get green signal, then it would drop out for a bit, then come back. After a while I switched to a Standalone profile thinking it would be more efficient to just gather post process data for 10 minutes or so. Unfortunately the radio would come in just long enough to reset my time-on-point display and things would start over again. Is there a way to temporarily turn off the UHF radio receiving process on a point? Am I not losing data when it resets the timer? Perhaps there is a setting in that Standalone profile that ignores UHF?

Thanks for any input!
 

Matthew D. Sibole

Well-Known Member
5PLS
You can turn off the uhf radio by going to the home page, the uhf icon at the top and tap on configuration at the bottom of that screen there will be a toggle to turn it off.
With that said just because it catches a glimpse of the radio does not mean that it is not storing raw data the whole time you are there. If you have raw data set to record to either the SD card or internal memory then it will store raw data for the whole session until you hit stop and accept. You have to accept the point regardless of whether or not you have a good shot though. The LS has to have a point number to associate all of that raw data to. I also recommend if you can not get radio that you shoot 3 (min. 10 min - preferably 20 min) shots. This will build in redundancy. You hope that at least two of those points come back in agreement with each other. If you only shoot it two times and both say they are fixed and they do not agree with each other then you have to go back and do it all over again.
 

Nate The Surveyor

Well-Known Member
Matt is spot on. I have stored points, that only had a few clicks. And, ppk later.
Radio on, or off, does not matter a lot.
I prefer it on, to store what it can get. I just don't rely on the rtk. A cloud, (literally) can pass over, improving radio. Or, even an airplane! The signal bounces off the bottom of the cloud, or airplane, and the radio turns green.
Hang in there...,
 

Aaron S

Active Member
Matt - In the situation you're describing with the 3 x 20 minute shots, is that assuming you have a base setup and will DPOS them later, or would the idea be to process the 3 raw data files through the DPOS website and get 3 standalone static results?
 

Matthew D. Sibole

Well-Known Member
5PLS
That is if you have a base. If I did not have a base and just want to collect static data to process CORS data with via online DPOS or Opus I suggest a minimum of 30 min maybe even 1 hour.
 
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