WE ARE ONLY 2 BEHIND

Today I called Martha at the AMSAT office. We are only 2 trackers behind! That is good news. We'd really like getting caught up... the goal being to build 10 a month. Well we are working on ten right now and that will, barring a bunch of orders, get us on track.

Tracker build process has been a bit slowed lately... waiting on lcd displays. Well Matrix Orbital came thru again. Our project requires lcd displays that use the Japanese font. Matrix Orbital stopped offering the Japanese font opting for the European font instead. That wipes out the degrees symbol that we need. But they came thru again and sent us 100 displays that arrived last Friday! Thanks Matrix Orbital!



Over the weekend I worked on getting things ready to sell on eBay. Also fixed a returned tracker developed a problem. Sunday was Family Day!

Monday evening built 10 lcd display cables (see Saturday, Jan 31, 2009 blog for pics).

This evening (Tuesday) started on the button assemblies. Less wire only 5 conductors compared to 12 for the lcd cable but the prep is more complex and the point to point wiring slows me down. But we got the wires cut an stripped and on Wednesday if I don't go the the second session of the Photoshop class we'll get the button assemblies done. If not then it will be Thursday.

Goin to bed... Good Night!