Coffs Harbour City Council CORS Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
By Geocaching Australia on 22-May-17. Waypoint TP7641

Cache Details

Difficulty:
Terrain:
Type:	TrigPoint
Container:	Other
Coordinates:	S30° 17.721' E153° 7.052' (WGS 84)
	56J 511302E 6648480N (UTM)
Elevation:	7 m
Local Government Area:	Coffs Harbour City

Map

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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

Coffs Harbour City Council CORS

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

Type: LE1AS10 antenna attached to a galvanised iron mast attached to the roof of the Coffs Harbour City Council Building, cnr Castle and Coffs St, Coffs Harbour

Services:   Realtime & Rinex
Latitude:   30° 17' 43.28374" S          (S30 17.721)
Longitude:   153° 07' 03.14446" E          (E153 07.052)
Elevation:   49.929 (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.

Logs

21-Oct-24

EuDes

This was 3rd on my walk around town this morning. It took a moment or two before I spotted the CORS and I eventually got the shot at 07:30 on the opposite side of the road. Smile

Thanks Geocaching Australia.

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Aug-23

MattyRx

We were in town to take a trip to South Solitary island, and to turn this Dragonzone back into it's rightful gold colour. This CORS was spotted from the roadside easily.

22-Mar-23

aussiemapman

22-Oct-22

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You know something needs to change in your life when you decide it would be better to drive about 370km in a Diesel 4wd at $2.40/litre in the pouring rain to visit your parents just because you lost it at the idea of being trapped in a small caravan on your own for an entire wet weekend. And that you decide to leave late at night after being awake since 4.30am for work.

After stopping at a rest area and sleep being broken every minute or so for an hour or so by the noisy creepy guys in the car that decided to park right beside me, I decided to keep driving south. This was right beside the highway and I'd always skipped it due to traffic, but tonight... this morning (2am)... there was no one around so I decided to drop in on it. I used my "sisters" pathtag in my shot. I could make out the CORS by sight but the phone camera did a poor job of picking it up.

Feels super-weird driving along this stretch of highway with no traffic. Well, on to the next rest area.

31-Dec-21

BigMatDozer

The crew had a big week and the grandparents house, so they were all asleep in the car by the time we went through Coffs. Nobody waving through the windows this time.
Quick find for this CORS. This trip has helped us to know what we are looking for with CORS.

08-May-21

Team737

We're up here for the weekend, and had a little spare time after unpacking, before the rest of our party arrived, so we went and grabbed a few caches. I think we were on foot last time, and this one was just a bit too much of a stretch - it was nice and quiet on Saturday afternoon around here too....

Rated: for Overall Experience

31-Mar-21

Smittengranny

It may have been quicker to walk up to get this photo but it would have tested me more. I found it after the zig zag. TFTT Geocaching Australia. Clan Cerberus

Rated: for Overall Experience

18-Aug-20

Lis + Pete

A walk around Coffs and a cache or two.

02-Sep-19

beetles2

First cache for the day after being muggled out at the last.
Got a parking space right outside but had to cross the road for the photo.
The sun wasn't real good for this photo and although the CORS was clear to the naked eye it only shows up as a line between the palm trees above Mr Beetle's right shoulder.
Thanks.

29-Aug-19

Opa Shrek

Photo taken from top deck of City Centre carpark

29-Aug-19

Opa Shrek

forgot photo

29-Aug-19

Opa Shrek

Spotted while staying in Coffs for a few days on our way to Qld

06-Aug-19

richary

Time for a couple of GCA virtuals after 2 weeks visiting the area to deal with getting sick parents into nursing homes, after a hectic time I had to swing back into Coffs Harbour today to drop some stuff back before driving home tomorrow. Stopped here and went to the roof of the carpark to get an iPhone shot. Thanks for the diversion.

28-Jun-19

Tassie Trekkers

Caching in the area with whitewebbs and snapped this CORS Required pic has been added to the gallery.

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

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Rated: for Overall Experience

28-Jun-19

whitewebbs

Day 78 Mainland trip (now heading to OZGM)
Out and about caching in and around Coffs Harbour with Tassie Trekkers and we stopped to photograph this CORS. TFTT

Rated: for Overall Experience

05-Jan-19

Kittykatch

Found on a cache run before heading down to parkrun. Easy pickup - TFTC

Rated: for Overall Experience

02-Apr-18

LuckyL10n

#GA2692 - 13:20; Day four of the 2018 Oz GeoMuster mission with Sol de lune. After leaving the Mega yesterday afternoon and caching our way to Taree where we spent the night at a local caravan park, the plan for today was to cache our way north past Port Macquarie, then through Kempsey, Macksville, Urunga, Coffs Harbour, Grafton, Casino, Lismore and into Ballina in preparation for some caching around Byron and the Tweed before setting sail south again for home. Although not part of the original itinerary, I was able to collect a few more caches in Taree, which Sdl had picked up on previous visits. After a few stops along the way we took another detour from the highway so I could snap this CORS as we passed through Coffs Harbour. TFTT Geocaching Australia Very Happy

Rated: for Overall Experience

14-Jan-18

2Wagtails

Finally spotted it Dancing

Thanks Geocaching Australia.

13-Jan-18

ZoNic66

Up on the top of the car park we went to get a view of this one. Not as fun as a trig!

Rated: for Overall Experience

13-Jan-18

lachnic62

Stooped on the way home from QLD. Geodad took us up to the top of the carpark to spot this one

Rated: for Overall Experience

13-Jan-18

alnic39

Y'need to get up on the top level of the car park to get this one.

03-Dec-17

Gullivers Travels54

This one was hard to take a pic of as the CORS is well hidden by the palm trees. TFTC

29-Sep-17

geono.

Hard to see from the ground. The best view was from across the road at the park bench until we drove to the top of the multi level parking. Even better spot!

11-Sep-17

Goldenwattle

I walked around the building, I crossed the road, I went to the top of a multi storey carpark, but the CORS remained hidden by building and vegetation. But I was there.

13-Jul-17

Sol de lune

Heading through town and this was nice and close to the highway so it was a simple detour to cross another dragonZone off the list. No problems grabbing the required photo.

Rated: for Overall Experience

22-May-17

2y'stassies

We could not see the CORS antenna from ground level but, luckily, there is a multi-story car park next door and we could see the antenna from the top level. Two photos have been added to the Gallery: Mrs y'stassie standing in the car park with the CORS antenna behind; a closer view of the antenna. Thanks for the cache.