With our equipment problems, we scrambled to mark out an area for the Polish magnetometry team to start working in on Tuesday. Although there was a miscommunication about the desired size of squares, much was prepared by the time of their arrival on-site. They made quick work of it, finishing Cemetery C (with over a hectare of land being surveyed) by the end of Wednesday. We laid out Cemetery A on Wednesday, just in time for them to start it on Thursday.
The long-hoped-for cable arrived for the EDM. However, we quickly discovered that it did not solve our communications error issues. After troubleshooting over the phone to the States, we discovered that it is actually the port on the EDM itself (in addition to the original cable) that is bad. So, after a week and a half of waiting for what we thought would fix all of our problems, we are still stuck with manually crunching coordinates and zero-setting on a lamppost. We were quite disappointed that this was not figured out a week and a half earlier, when we might have had time to arrange renting or borrowing another machine, whereas now we’re so close to having to finish up at the site that it’s probably not worth trying. So, on with the number crunching!
