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- Everything seemed okay with connections and set-up
- Placed TS exactly at the REAL lidar mirror, to establish one end of the reference line to (later) stake to.
- Started the process to locate the TS using multiple GPS pole sitings. Found that it took 2500-3000 GPS scans to get even to 0.200m accuracy (about 10min). Talking with Matt, tried to clear the ephemeris, but didn't help. Went through 4 points, and it couldn't calculate a position, tried deleting one (that it did permanently, by mistake) and could get a crude position. Decided to add more points, but still couldn't calculate TS position. With 7 points, it came up with a location, but clearly was WAY off. I had the idea that the position IDs were out of sync between the TS and the GS, but couldn't figure out how to edit this. While messing with this, managed to get out of the TS position mode and couldn't figure out how to get back in to use the points (GPCx) that it had saved. Eventually, had to start from scratch (GPDx) collecting another 3 or 4 points. It still complained about CQ being 1.3, rather than 1.0, but did manage to compute a reasonable position. This process took about 4 hours!
- I still needed a second point on the reference line, so I took the GPS pole out to the rough location of the closest end of the DTS. In the process, I oriented myself to the BLM land boundary. During the drive out to the field, I turned off the GPS and handheld device, but left the TS on (obviously!). When at the site, I couldn't connect through the long-range antenna to the TS. Drove back to the TS and could roughly site back to the pole, but "power scan" couldn't find the prism, presumably due to all of the optical shimmer (clearly obvious through the TS telescope) – at this point, it was 3:30pm. Manually siting through the telescope, it found that the distance was only about 680m. I could see the power LED on on the LR antenna, but had no indication that it was connected. Decided to shut everything down and come back in cooler conditions. To avoid the hassle of re-locating the TS, I put the bag over the head and left it in place.
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