Ok, I get the green light...makes sense in hind sight, no need to fix/float the base
no wall, but maybe because it was the edge of a four foot wide table or maybe the resin (it's bamboo and resin) but most likely the edge, I'm pretty sure it was blocking the bluetooth
"This LED is only an indication of the number of satellites being tracked, not of the quality of the signals being received."
So I might have 8 or more sats but with poor quality signals and therefore it can't get a more precise fix.
This would then apply to static/post-processing as well. I might have green or even yellow, but if the quality of the sat signals are not so good, the precision of the point will also be poor. This explains some things. The land here is VERY "broken", lots of gullies and hills so steep you have to cut little foot holds at times. When down in a gully, especially when also on the down side of a mountain, we have a hard time getting a green or even a yellow light. We double the burn time but even then it sometimes shows up as kinetic, has a high data rejection rate and/or high rms. fortunately we don't need much precision down in the gullies. a meter either way is no big deal. by the way, how good an indication of precision is rms? pdop, hdop, etc are better, no?