Benalla CORS Benalla, Victoria, Australia
By
Geocaching Australia on 01-Oct-17. Waypoint TP7682
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | TrigPoint |
| Container: | Other |
| Coordinates: | S36° 32.632' E146° 0.358' (WGS 84) |
| 55H 411028E 5955266N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 172 m |
| Local Government Area: | Benalla |
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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
Benalla CORS
Official name of this Trig Station as per SmartNet Australia is BNLA. It is located on the roof of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Offices, 89 Sydney Road, Benalla, Victoria.
Services: Realtime & Rinex
Latitude: 36° 32' 37.89798" S
Longitude: 146° 00' 21.48939" E
Elevation: 187.452 (Ellipsoidal)
Source: SmartNet Aus
To log a find on the Geocaching Australia website, you will need to include a picture of the CORS, along with your GPS receiver and/or 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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Logs
We've been at the Rutherglen mega, and headed this afternoon to Bendigo, we didn't have alot of time, so prioritised trigs and virtuals, and maybe any *really* cool DTs for the trip. We're always up for a good cors.
Rated: for Overall Experience
While out doing the shopping this morning TG47 agreed to drive up here so we could photograph this CORS. I was a bit difficult to locate until I checked on other cacher's photographs. Even folk walking inside didn't know where it was, in fact they didn't know what a CORS is.
Success was achieved as we took photos of the little blighter.
TFTT Geocaching Australia
Success was achieved as we took photos of the little blighter.
TFTT Geocaching Australia
Rated: for Overall Experience
After my first of two nights at the pub in Tungamah (highly recommended btw) I did the Silo Art trail down into Benalla and then off to the Mega at Wangaratta.
Rated: for Overall Experience
I dropped into Benalla this morn6to locate this CORS.
cheers
cheers
Rated: for Overall Experience
found on our way home from St Arnaud Mega. had stopped right here on the way but only realised there was a CORS as we were leaving. Glad to stop on the way home.
Rated: for Overall Experience
CA 2,705. Found with minniek during the 2019 St. Arnaud Mega.
Heading home we stopped for this easy CORS.
TFTC !!
Heading home we stopped for this easy CORS.
TFTC !!
Rated: for Overall Experience
We're making our way from Wangaratta to Echuca today caching along the way. Didn't have this one saved on the GPS the other day when we were in the area so had to come back to grab the required photo, attached. TFTC
Oops, drove in to the car park the wrong way for this one. Did come out the right way though!!
Found the CORS quickly and in our photo it is just to the left of the Australian flag.
Thanks.
Found the CORS quickly and in our photo it is just to the left of the Australian flag.
Thanks.
On our way to the Mega at Queanbeyan this was our first stop this morning, trying out my new car, so driving through towns rather than going cross country over the Warby Ranges.
Thanks for the chance to stop and stretch my legs.
Thanks for the chance to stop and stretch my legs.
Rated: for Overall Experience
This was a good day to visit this, as the car park was empty. TFTC.
Rated: for Overall Experience
On my way already to the Parkville event in melbourne. Long drive today with a few detours. Weather is fine, low twenties, dry and not too sunny, almost ideal for driving and caching! Most caches were driveby's to break up the boredom and stretch the legs. Thanks to all the cache owners for putting them out there.
TFTC Wilbert67
TFTC Wilbert67
We left Wangaratta for Bendigo and picked up a few caches on the way and this was one of them. TFTT
Rated: for Overall Experience
22:20
We celebrated my sister's birthday milestone with family and friends at a pub in Wang, and are now off for a much needed Easter break. How better to navigate to the olds' place than caches?
Most of my waypoints were virtual; this was the first. Possibly not the best time of day to see this one, but hey...
GCA#362
We celebrated my sister's birthday milestone with family and friends at a pub in Wang, and are now off for a much needed Easter break. How better to navigate to the olds' place than caches?
Most of my waypoints were virtual; this was the first. Possibly not the best time of day to see this one, but hey...
GCA#362
Rated: for Overall Experience
Benalla is another local government area where we need a dragon zone cache to help us reach our target of finding one dragon zone cache in every zone in a one hundred kilometer square around our geoocaching centroid.
We had identified this CORS as a possible find as we had found many GCA in Benalla prior to the start of dragon zone.
We have found many CORS antennae, often those sited in city centres are hard to get good photos of because of their close proximity to other buildings. Some of these can be clearly seen from a distance but when approached more closely they are obscured by gutters, roof lines and other antennae.
Our photo has been added to the gallery.
By logging this CORS in Benalla we are left with four zones in which we need to find at least one dragon zone cache so we can earn our Finding our geocaching Centroid.
We had identified this CORS as a possible find as we had found many GCA in Benalla prior to the start of dragon zone.
We have found many CORS antennae, often those sited in city centres are hard to get good photos of because of their close proximity to other buildings. Some of these can be clearly seen from a distance but when approached more closely they are obscured by gutters, roof lines and other antennae.
Our photo has been added to the gallery.
By logging this CORS in Benalla we are left with four zones in which we need to find at least one dragon zone cache so we can earn our Finding our geocaching Centroid.
We are heading south to Alexandra and left Nanango on Monday 4th November.
Day one we overnighted in Moree, Day two,three and four we over nighted in Dubbo. On day five we overnighted in Shepparton and days six and seven we over nighted in Bendigo. Now we are up to day 8 and we left Bendigo for our next 4 night stop over in Queabeyan before we head to Alexandra on Friday. Todays cache finding has begun. Next one on our list It took some looking on my part to locate this one as it is well tucked away from the front of the bildings and in between two buildings. TFTT GC
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Day one we overnighted in Moree, Day two,three and four we over nighted in Dubbo. On day five we overnighted in Shepparton and days six and seven we over nighted in Bendigo. Now we are up to day 8 and we left Bendigo for our next 4 night stop over in Queabeyan before we head to Alexandra on Friday. Todays cache finding has begun. Next one on our list It took some looking on my part to locate this one as it is well tucked away from the front of the bildings and in between two buildings. TFTT GC
ARated: for Overall Experience
We are currently touring South Australia with our geovan in tow, using geocaching as a guide. We have visited many amazing locations through geocaching and today our journey bought us to Benalla and the Benalla CORS. Very easy to spot this one - required pic has been added to the gallery.
Many thanks Geocaching Australia for publishing this cache for our enjoyment and adding to our geocaching experience today.
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Last of the listed CORs grabbed while on the drive home from a 3 day road trip around Eastern Victoria. No problems here and the photos were soon snapped....
Rated: for Overall Experience
#GA2031 - 13:35; I dropped into Benalla on the way south to Melbourne hoping to locate this CORS. The timing was pretty good as I suspect this area gets pretty crowded during business hours. Managed to find a park, although I entered the carpark from the wrong direction 
Spotted the CORS on the roof as I drove in and soon had the snaps in the can, along with a *FTF* and was on the road again. TFTC Geocaching Australia
Spotted the CORS on the roof as I drove in and soon had the snaps in the can, along with a *FTF* and was on the road again. TFTC Geocaching Australia Rated: for Overall Experience
