alasdair neill
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Hopefully someone more involved can add to the following, but checks on several DistoX's just made in Matienzo showed that following an east-west line then reversing along a back bearing failed to give the expected 180 degrees difference - errors of 5 degrees were come up with. It seems the calibration procedure may need clarification.
Regarding the use of DX'S and PDA's I found as being a member of a surveying team very annoying - surely part of the needs of surveying is to get maximum involvement for everyone. I totally understand someone who has splashed out on the two devices wanting to do the work themselves, but it leaves everyone else twiddling their thumbs, and the resulting drawings from the PDA although probably more accurate as to passage outline, tended to lack passage detail.
On some trips we came up with a compromise where someone else was drawing in passage detail the luddite way with a pencil and notebook.
Regarding the use of DX'S and PDA's I found as being a member of a surveying team very annoying - surely part of the needs of surveying is to get maximum involvement for everyone. I totally understand someone who has splashed out on the two devices wanting to do the work themselves, but it leaves everyone else twiddling their thumbs, and the resulting drawings from the PDA although probably more accurate as to passage outline, tended to lack passage detail.
On some trips we came up with a compromise where someone else was drawing in passage detail the luddite way with a pencil and notebook.