Dust of the GG-Surveyor?
Posted By jon stratton on 1/12/2002 at 11:45 PM

From the interesting conversations on the other board about the $700 million resurection of Glonass, I wonder if some of the old GG-Surveyor's(L1 GPS+GLONASS), will be dragged out of the cupboard, dusted off and pressed into service.

Last year when Glonass was almost dead, our local Ashtech guy sold his old GG-Surveyor for a song.

The GG was cheaper because it only used L1 Glonass and L1 GPS, and I wonder what Ashtech policy will be NOW toward Glonass, since they do not manufacture any RTK or static gear using Glonass at present?

Anyone?


Re: Dust of the GG-Surveyor?
Posted By matthew ford on 1/12/2002 at 11:53 PM

If that happens, I should think Trimble would have to do a lot of back-peddling, if Javad and Ashtech re-enter the Glonass arena!


Re: Dust of the GG-Surveyor?
Posted By Jim Frame on 1/13/2002 at 1:39 AM

Jon Stratton wrote:

Last year when Glonass was almost dead, our local Ashtech guy sold his old GG-Surveyor for a song.

For what it's worth, "a song" currently appears to be less than $15k. Twice in recent weeks someone from Ohio has tried to sell an Ashtech GG-24C on eBay; both times the auction failed to attract the $15,000 minimum bid.