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While the Federal Government is shut down and has made OPUS unavailable to us, Trimble has an alternative we can use.Go to http://trimblertx.com/ to access the service.

For those of you who don't want to adjust your traverse in Trimble Business Center, you can do a simple Compass or Transit rule adjustment in Trimble Access (or Survey Controller for that matter). Three things to remember. 1. ALWAYS turn your closing angle on the traverse 2. ALWAYS use the same point numbers for [...]

Submitted by Ryan Swingly PLS from Seiler's Indiana Office Explanation of NAD 1983 (2)  

A SMART MOBILE SURVEYING SOLUTIONPowerful, connected, and compact, the Trimble Slate Controller combines the convenience and ease-of-use of a smartphone with the durability for which Trimble isknown. Its slim, ergonomic design is easy to grasp andits screen provides superior sunlight readability enablingall-day use by hard-working survey professionals.    all-day use by hard-working survey professionals. 

This works only if you have Access running... The TSC3 does the screen capture when you hit control and S. It only works when you are inside of Trimble Access. It then saves it under the folder of the users name. To answer a question I just got in the comments... The screen capture is [...]

You can lock Survey Styles to prevent them from being edited in the field. To do this:Use Microsoft ActiveSync technology to establish a connection between the controller and your office computer.Navigate to the [Mobile Device / My Windows Mobile-Based Device / Trimble Data / Systems Files] folder.Copy the required style file to your office computer.Select [...]

There is lots of confusion out there on the FCC Narrowbanding, and one of the confusing issues is broadcasting at 19,200 baud in the 25khz band.The HPB 450's will do this, but not in a format that Trimble GNSS receivers will accept.The following is from a Trimble FAQ....

BAE Systems' NAVSOP does positioning without GPS, makes sure the only jammin' going on is yoursBy Jon Fingas posted Jun 30th 2012 10:29AM Just in case GPS and GLONASS didn't make for enough of an acronym soup, BAE Systems wants to add one more to the navigation broth. NAVSOP (Navigation via Signals of Opportunity) uses some [...]

Thanks to Holly Urbain from our Wisconsin office for sending this in...

Last week we did a network installation of Trimble Business Center, and a number of the computers had black screens on them when we opened the program. Files imported just fine,  and if you did a New Points Spreadsheet, the points were in there. Problem was, you could not see them. It made us rather [...]