I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Nate Dearyan on 9/11/2002 at 11:20 AM

HOW do do it?

I've been trying for an hour



So the antenae does not record any satts below 20°.

To assist in a shot in a hole

Nate
Modified By Nate Dearyan on 9/11/2002 at 11:21 AM

Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By jerry wahl on 9/11/2002 at 11:24 AM

What receiver?

Locus and Ashtech solutions?

Z-Surveyor or Z-xtreme and ???


Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Nate Dearyan on 9/11/2002 at 11:29 AM

LOCUS
Ashtec ver 2.40
Modified By Nate Dearyan on 9/11/2002 at 11:36 AM

Collect as usual, change the processing
Posted By Phil Stevenson on 9/11/2002 at 11:55 AM

Record as always. Process using the default settings.

Go to the vectors tab in the workbook and right click on the vector.

Click process.

Change the elevation mask to 20°.

Crunch the vector with the new elevation mask.

If you can't make it work call tech support. We can help you make it work.

My suggestion is always to record all you can and strip out what you don't want in the processing.

Modified By Phil Stevenson on 9/11/2002 at 11:55 AM

Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Nate Dearyan on 9/11/2002 at 12:04 PM

I still want to change what it recorded. How to do it?

Nate


Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By jerry wahl on 9/11/2002 at 1:26 PM

From the documentation and capabilities I have, I see no way to do it. You can set recording interval and toggle kinematic alarm, and that appears to be all. There may be secret commands we don't know about though.

- jlw


Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Dave Huff on 9/11/2002 at 3:53 PM

Phil is spot on. Don't worry about what it records, just raise the mask in the processing of that (those) vectors when you get to them.


Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Jim Littlefield, Jr. on 9/11/2002 at 4:54 PM

It is far easier to work with less than what you have instead of wishing you had more to work with. I am not about to tell ya'll who told me that, either.
Jimbo



Advice from a carpenter
Posted By Phil athome on 9/12/2002 at 8:21 AM

A guy told me once that he would much rather cut a board too long than too short but the best advice he could offer was measure twice and cut once.

Better to record everything in the sky and strip out what you don't want. That logic has worked well for me for a bunch of years.

The difference in the volume of data you have to download or store on the receiver does not amount to much at all.



Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Nate Dearyan on 9/12/2002 at 9:52 PM

That's not the issue here. I have a site with lots of pines, from 20° down. I want to ONLY record the satts that are high. If there are 10 birds up, then it ingores the high ones. (the software was written that way) I want to force it to get them, as the reciever in the hole can't get anything below 20° anyway.

Nate


Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Scott Partridge on 9/12/2002 at 10:12 PM

Nate, maybe I am missing something, but I have used the blue boxes and software and have not noticed that the high elevation satellites are ignored at any time (unless they are flagged as unhealthy). Everything the receiver can see is logged as far as I can tell.

We work in environments like you describe on a daily basis. I have been doing static GPS for nearly twenty years... I can't envision any reason to purposefully set the receiver mask to 20 degrees for the reasons that the other posters have noted. You may think that you are getting nothing useful below that elevation but you would be surprised.






Re: I would like to do this
Posted By W D Barker on 9/13/2002 at 2:25 PM

with the Locus Processor v 1.10. Any hints for the needy?

Bill


Hints for the needy
Posted By Phil athome on 9/15/2002 at 9:23 AM

Upgrade to Ashtech Solutions.



Re: I want to set the antenae mask to 20°
Posted By Moondog Bill on 9/24/2002 at 1:56 PM

Aside from the philosophical advice you are getting, if you are find yourself always reprocessing with a different mask, you can set this value on the Zxtreme:

SurvConf
Survey:Static|Elev Mask
Survey:Kinematic|Elev Mask
Survey:RTKBase |Elev Mask

Set what you want, then go to

Settings|Save