Round Hill Point CORS Chasm Creek, Tasmania, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 07-Feb-17. Waypoint TP7570

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Type: TrigPoint
Container: Other
Coordinates: S41° 3.908' E145° 57.710' (WGS 84)
  55G 412773E 5453493N (UTM)
Elevation: 17 m
Local Government Area: Burnie

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Description

CORS (Continually Operating Reference Stations) collecting geodetic data from GNSS.

A CORS is a Continuously Operating Reference Station. CORS can take the place of a traditional base station used in differential GNSS positing. They can give an instant position to an accuracy of ±20 mm and are used in many industries including Precision Agriculture, Construction, Mining, Surveying and in Scientific Research.

Typically, the maximum distance between a base station and rover GNSS set up is around 10 - 15 km. This is due to the effect of the atmosphere on the GNSS signals as they travel from the satellite to a GNSS receiver.

With the establishment of a network of CORS, the distance between the base and the rover can be extended. The CORS can be spaced around 70 km apart and using at least 3 of these CORS, the atmospheric effects can be modelled and corrected for, yielding the ±20 mm position solution required by so many industries.

More info on CORS can be found here: CORS

 

Round Hill Point CORS

Official name of this Trig Station as per SmartNet Australia is RHPT.

Type:  LEIAT504 antenna mounted on a concrete pillar via a stainless steel spigot thread

Services:   Realtime & Rinex
Latitude:   41° 03' 54.48451" S  (S41 03.908)
Longitude:   145° 57' 42.61940" E  (E145 57.710)
Elevation:   25.956m (Ellipsoidal)

Source:   SmartNet Aus

 

To log a find on the Geocaching Ausralia website, you will need to include a picture of the CORS, along with your GPS receiver and preferably yourself.  You are encouraged to leave a description of your journey in your log to help others in finding the CORS. 

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06-May-23
Another spot we regularly pass by. About ti Smile me we stopped to have a look here at the lighthouse and other attractions such as GA caches and Trig points and Virtuals. Smile
 
03-Jul-20
Hello and TFT CORS trig, nice easy walk up to here for a 'few' finds.
Found with AlbyDangles on Day Two of the 'Bust' leg of our "Kempsey or Bust" tour.
Cheers, EPs
 
28-Mar-20
Grabbed this one on the way past to qualify for the trophy. TFTC Clan Cerberus
 
02-Mar-19
Easy find today. TFTC Clan Cerberus
 
07-Jan-19
Found this trig on a GeoCaching Trip to the NW

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26-Dec-18
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Out finding caches for the current games and this was one of them.

Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache and adding to our geocaching experience.

Tassie Trekkers are now a locationless geocache we have published a 'Geocacher cache' - Travelling Trekkers GA10932 - so if you spot us in your area sign our log book and receive a code word to earn yourself a Very Happy

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01-Dec-18
"Hello thanks for the cache.

This is not what I was expecting to find when I walked up the hill.


Found on Saturday 01 December 2018 at 1631"
 
20-Aug-18
out and about to see a play in Burnie this CORS being the Trig Point had to get a visit, with good company in tow selfies with CORS look respectable TFTC TNBPLN CORS wet and miserable
 
19-Aug-18
A quick stop on the drive home after a weekend on the Northwest coast. Haven't logged one of these before.
 
15-Apr-18
Have been here, but well before the CORs was listed.....photo snapped and all was good.
 
02-Jan-18
While we were out and about caching in the North West of Tasmania we stopped and parked near the gate and walked up the road to find the cors. No trouble spotting and the required photo was taken. At least with this cors you can't miss it. A different type to the ones you are usually squinting for on top of council buildings.

We are currently participating in the States of the Nation games running from 16 December 2017 until 21 January 2018.

States of the Nation is a real and virtual geocaching scavenger hunt where your home state will compete against other Australian states to find and hide geocaches. Over the 5 week course of the game there will be hundreds of scavenges that you can track down, find and convert into points for your state. Some scavenges will be easy. Some scavenges will be tough. Some scavenges may be impossible. Don't despair. You are not competing just for yourself; you are competing as a state.

There will be a number of scavenges released on a weekly basis but each scavenge will remain until the end of the game. This means even if you decide to join the game part way through, the early scavenges are still available for you to claim. Scavenges will require you to find a geocache, hide a geocache, attend an event or do something else completely different. The game focuses on all aspects of geocaching and so all cache types, sizes, terrain and difficulty will be up for scavenging. TrigPoints, Events, History, Virtual, Webcam, Podcache and Locationless geocaches are all scavengable, so you're not just looking for a box under a bush. Each week there will be a mix of physical, non-physical and locationless geocaches so even if you are not in a geocache rich area, use the locationless component of scavenger series to get out, find something to log and gain points for your state. If you watch the scavenges as they are released you might also spot the 'not so hidden' patterns and plan for future weeks of the series.

Hiding geocaches will also be a large part of the scavenger series, but please remember this is a game of geocaching and geocaches that you hide should be long lasting, be of good quality and you should be proud of what you hide. Please avoid hiding a geocache just for the day so your state can find it before you archive it. Geocaches that exist for a short period of time may result in any claims on that geocache being disqualified. Play creatively, but also play fairly. More geocachers hiding more geocaches makes for more geocaching fun.

Sorry about the lengthy logs. We are currently aiming for a virtual verbosity trophy. TFTT

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17-Apr-17
A quick find in a spot we'd visited before, this time we took the required photo. TFTT
 
11-Apr-17
Here not long ago....looked at the CORS but didn't take a photo....grabbed today though....tftc....cheers.
 
25-Mar-17
This one was first on today's list but once we realised that it was on the opposite side of the highway we left it till on the way home which made it the last for the day. Had our little 6 year old friend with us today and he and I made the short uphill walk to GZ where he happily posed for the required photo.
Thanks.
 
12-Feb-17
Sainted at 1033hrs
 
07-Feb-17
One aspect of the Summer Scavenger Series was the realisation that the CORS network is now Australia wide. When we researched CORS we learnt that there are numerous CORS points in Tasmania. One is near the lighthouse at Chasm Creek which we visited recently. It is easy access with safe parking on the side of the highway. Two photos have been added to the Gallery: Mrs y'stassie sitting at the base of the concrete pillar on which the RHPT CORS is mounted; the second is a view of the CORS antenna at this site. There being no other logs, we will claim FTF at 16:10.
 
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