Buba Loaned Me a GPS Receiver, He had two

[tabdog]

[size=medium]He said he would loan it to me for ever, and
he never wants it back.

He won't give me nothin.

It's one of tha first Carmin receivers made.

It's a Carmin GPS 12.

Nothin special, but it holds 500 points and will
do what ever I need it for.

I have used dual frequency, survey quality GPS
ever sense President Ragan made GPS available
to tha public. So I don't have a learnin curve.

I used it today, but tha place I found didn't yeald
anything.

Just because it looks good on a map don't
necessairly mean it really is a good place.

But I've just started and only scratched tha surface.

I'll be back at it tomorrow.

Wish me luck,

Tabdog[/size]

 

[Bill in Texas]

Go get'm Dog. Best of luck? Bill in Texas

 

[rmptr]

I've got a Magellan Pioneer.
It worked well a couple years ago and brought us in to the harbor mouth through some very thick fog.
Today it just won't seem to lock on the satellites.
I'm wondering if they changed frequency or something?
Anyone know?
rmptr

 

[tabdog]

Hay Rmptr,

It should work better than it did.

From what I know,

Tha system had a scramble on it to

reduce tha efficiency.

It was removed a while back and

precision should have improved.

Thare are more satellites now than

before, so it should be easier to acquire

satellites.

It may be sick.

Hope it gets better,

Tabdog

 

[dahut]

n/t

 

[tabdog]

Hay David,

I have a brother that lives in Shreveport, LA.

I kid him about being a Louisiana Slope Head.

He has his doctorate in mechanical engineering.

He has a fancy GPS with roads and golf courses

all over tha world. If he is standing on tha fairway

of any golf course, he can know tha distance and

change in elevation to tha green. He knows how

big tha green is, where tha hazards are and how

tha green breaks.

But, me being a surveyor, I had to teach him

some finer points of measuring by satellites.

That got his goat.

He hates it when I know something he doesn't.

I like it, but it doesn't happen often. He's smart.....

HH,

Tabdog

 

[BarberBill]

I use my GPS quite a bit in relation to my detecting. Whenever I'm looking for old homestead sites, logging camps etc. I save the locations so that I can find them easily later. I drove by one last week deer hunting and the area has been logged since and there is no longer any sign of the cabin there. Fortunately, I have the location saved so that I can hit the same area easily even though it doesn't look any thing like it did before. Also useful to put in the location of small streams or other landmarks that aren't marked by signs so that you know when you are near a new site. There are a number of web sites where one can get the gps co-ordinates for named landmarks, streams etc. and this has helped me get to sites I've been told about by others. Great tool.
BB

 

[nad]

Tab Dog,many thanks for the post..I had been wondering if I were to buy a GPS device, if I could use it to mark hits on several large fields..With my luck around electronic devices, I would probably have a surveillance drone overhead with in minutes, cordially NAD

 

[tabdog]

Hay Nad,

Do you mean you want to mark tha spot of a find?

There is a problem with that.

When you come back at a later time, you probably
will be off by as much as 50'. Usually less, but 10'
of error, + or- is, is tha error of tha best single
frequency GPS receivers.

You can mark whole sites, but it doesn't work well
for marking individual finds.

But if you shoot all tha finds in tha same day, you
can produce a map that will have tha correct distance
relationship between all tha points shot on that day.

But when you come back on a later day, tha error
will be thar.

Surveyors use dual frequency receivers.

It takes dual frequency receivers to reduce that type
of error. That means having a receiver on a known point
while tha shots are taken with a rover receiver.

Both receivers communicate with each other while
receiving tha satellite signals. Software takes tha error
to a minimum. Centimeters of error, not meters.

Maybe that's clear as mud????

Happy Huntin,

Tabdog