Virginia Surveyors

[Adam]

Hey ya'll Virginia Surveyors, I will be attending the Virginia Conference in Feb. next year. If any of you folks in Virginia would like to invite your buddies for a field comparison with the LS I would be interested in hanging around on Saturday to meet up. @John Evers is planning on attending the conference as well.

 

[Steve Douty]

Adam, Great news!! The 70th Annual Convention & General Membership Meeting will be
January 18-20, 2018 (Not February)
Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center
Staunton, VA
https://vasurveyors.site-ym.com/page/2018AnnualFinal
Look forward to seeing everyone!!!! I'll buy the drinks. :-}}

 

[Adam]

Adam, Great news!! The 70th Annual Convention & General Membership Meeting will be
January 18-20, 2018 (Not February)
Stonewall Jackson Hotel & Conference Center
Staunton, VA
https://vasurveyors.site-ym.com/page/2018AnnualFinal
Look forward to seeing everyone!!!! I'll buy the drinks. :-}}

Thanks for catching that Steve, I was mixed up with North Carolinas dates.

 

[Adam]

Virginia bound! Safe travels to those of you heading to The VAS conference.

 

[Adam]

Tough traveling in Carolina today. Stuck in a snow jam.

 

[Adam]

Today me and John set up a base T2 and an LS outside the conference area and utilized RAMs to display the screen in the booth. I had quite a few come by and mention they had seen it. We we're about 25' feet from the building and next to magnolia tree. You could see the LS out of the exibit hall window. Check it out. It's directly behind the column on the right on the right side of the magnolia.

 

[Jim Frame]

 

[Adam]

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Yep, how'd u do that? Is that street view? Van wasn't there before, I don't think.

 

[Adam]

No on second look it's behind the next column left.

 

[Jim Frame]

Yes, it's from StreetView. It was hard to tell from the original photo exactly where the tripod was set up, so I took a guess.

The reason I went looking for the site on GE was because I didn't understand why the receiver was so much higher than the intersection shown in the original photo. (Curiosity may not always kill the cat, but it can sure lead him down some rabbit holes!)

 

[Adam]

Many thanks to @Steve Douty for the supurb job of official VAS bartender! And to the VAS staff and especially to Marvin and Khea Adams. Excellent conference! I expect Virginia to be Javads new playground this year!

 

[Steve Douty]

Adam,
Many thanks to both you and John. You made the Virginia event memorable.

 

[Adam]

Me and John had a the pleasure of speaking with a very nice topcon affiliate who told us they recommend to all of their users to never go in the woods with their equipment. I can not imagine not going in the woods. On a side note the young group of future surveyors representing ETSU had shirts that said " Surveyors do it in the woods". I think that should be @Javad new slogan.