GNSS drift under canopy - what’s your move

Spent the morning tying two old rebar corners along a tree-choked creek lot for a boundary and quick topo, and my network RTK rover kept drifting 0.2-0.5 ft under the canopy even after multiple inits, while the S6 and prism held tight off a short, solid backsight. Anyone getting better holds in heavy leaf with a different rover/antenna or tilt-comp settings, or do you just call it a total station day when the map’s due and the trees won’t play nice?

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Under heavy leaf I kill tilt, bump the elev mask to about 15°, and swap off network RTK to a short UHF base set on that same solid backsight — network was drifting 0.2–0.5 ft on me too. Two 90–120 s averages per shot usually pulls it into a tenth instead of chasing re-inits, ugh. Have you tried tilt off + a local base tied to your S6 backsight?

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