Made my first observations with the locus recievers very easy to use, I am a little baffled. Cooked three locus units on 3 published geodetic state monuments for about 30 min,(had 3 blinking lights) had 7 to 8 birds visable, low pdop,took info to office and looked at the raw coords, they matched the published nad 83 coords with in .2 to .1 meters , elevation was with in .8-.9 meters of published is this normal ? Remind you I did not give the program any fixed coords. I am ammazed I expected to see 20 to 30 meters. The above question does not include the CORS readings.
On a different subject I also included into the mix a CORS station in my town (what a deal a free reciciever)After a sucessful conversion and figuring out that the program will not name the conversion files correctly, if you batch process the files, I hand renamed all the files, anyway is there a way to patch the hourly files into one file so that they show up as one set-up or does it not matter.I might of missed something.
Thanks,
David J Sgroi,PLS
High Point, N.C.

I have had about the same results; the real beauty of the system is using NGS published stations and running a free adjustment using one fixed, then checking the "control ties" to the others. It is quite amazing.

I would venture to say your autonomous sub-meter positions are a matter coincidence. I remember reading that the NGS conducted a test, shortly after the deactivation of Selective Availability, the results being that 95%, (2 sigma), of the autonomous positions fell with a 4.5 meter radius of the published WGS84/NAD83 positions. Also, I am sure you are aware that you must coordinate seed one of your positions X,Y, and Z, apply Geoid99, and run a minimally constrained adjustment to check the quality of your raw GPS data against the other published monuments.