Did anyone else have any problem data Tues 08/14 besides me. I spent all day, and about 100 miles of running between 5 points, repeat sessions, and several hours trying to get the residuals down and clean up a multitude of failed vectors. Just wondering if there could have been a bit of severe solar activity or really turbulant ionosphere between 11:00am and 4:00pm CDST that could lead to my wasted day?

Now 3:00am...think I'll take a nap.

J.D.

p.s. 2.4 looks good but it's definately going to take a heck of a lot of study, which may be most of my current problem. Locus Processor 1.2 made me lazy I guess.

JD,

Didn't run anything yesterday (8/14) but on 8/13 during all day thundersorm everything worked just fine(10:00am to 12:30pm)...but I was only "shooting" in control around Beauregard Parish Airport...4-7000' vectors.

On my Mission Planner I did notice that early in the day til about 10:00am and from about 2:30pm on it wasn't gonna be worth a damn cuz PDOP spiked off the chart several times. This was around (from memory) N30 50 20 W093 20 00.

Patiently waiting for 2.4.

Jimbo

There is a web site (www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html) that shows any solar activity that has occured in the last couple of days, of which I looked at and it showed that solar activity was low. It is a good site to look back at if you have problems during a particular part of the day, the only thing I wish it could do is perdict the future solar activity, of which it can't. It does give a few hours prediction ahead of the present time only. Maybe this will help in the future, but doesn't look like it was the problem yesterday. This would have been my quess also on where to look, although usually solar acvitity only bothers short rtk or kinnematic observations.

After getting 4 hours sleep and waking up fresh (yeah, right) and ready to go, I reviewed my yesterday's data. Actually the residuals weren't all that bad. The error estimates were a bit more than I would normally anticipate for 3 to 6 mile processed vectors. After changing to 3ppm on H and V (leaving 1cm H and 2cm V), all vectors passed. I just haven't experienced 0.2'-0.3' error estimates lately.
This one is really only important to me as I am "redefining" the position of my base station "post". We have projects in all three directions we can run from 3 seperate Primary Airport Control points at 3 different airports. And place all the data files into one project folder.

J.D.

Mike, another site you might check out is "spaceweather.com". They do give you some pre-event warnings as to solar activity. As a matter of fact, I believe they are predicting a bit of an event for tomorrow (Thurs 08/16/01). I looked there last night myself.

Mike,

Thanks for the link. I just checked it out and looked back at the "weather" recorded for Thursday. I couldn't have picked a worse day to run a control network. It all came out o.k., but probably would have been a lot more painless under better conditions. Also, if I'd have taken your advice and checked it the night before, I think I would have rescheduled the project. I will check it from now on.

Thanks

J.D.