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April 16, 2026
How to Keep Your Sonde Transmitter Battery Compartment in Good Shape
Battery compartment problems are among the most common - and most preventable - causes of sonde failure in the field. What looks like a ...
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April 01, 2026
Why You Should Calibrate Your HDD Sonde Transmitter On Every Job Site?
Pairing transmitter calibration with your HDD locator at each new job is one of the simplest ways to keep locating stable and trustworth...
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March 30, 2026
What Is an HDD Locator - and Why Does It Matter?
Underground infrastructure is dense almost everywhere utilities are built: water and sewer lines, gas and electricity, fiber and telecom...
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March 29, 2026
Why Your HDD Locator Loses Range: Understanding Active and Passive Interference
A successful horizontal directional drilling (HDD) job should begin with an interference check. Before you drill, walk the bore path and...
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March 26, 2026
What Is a Sonde Transmitter? (The Essentials Of Modern Transmitters)
A sonde transmitter is a compact electronic device used in horizontal directional drilling (HDD) to track the position of a drill head un...
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March 25, 2026
BGH86 Beacon for SubSite 750/752 Ditch Witch Locating System
Here’s how we combined three beacons for Ditch Witch Subsite systems into a single unit and fixed their signal issues. 86BGH – 86BG 86BH,...
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March 24, 2026
Why Your HDD Sonde Eats Batteries: Faulty Unit, Cells, or Drill Head
Sonde Draining Batteries Fast? 3 Causes & How to Test Current Draw
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