LVB Tracker 5 days till Dayton Hamvention

Actually there is less that 3 days for building. Wednesday will be a finish any tracker building day. Pack-up the truck to go day and travel day.

Michael and Ryan spent the night but won't be doing breakfast with us. Their not happy cause we're going to Bob Evans.

Rufus got a long walk this morning. We checked out Riverview Elementary School grounds. We were probably gone 50 minutes. Poor Rufus was too dry to mark and a bit tired when we got home.

Last night I got the din cables ready for assembly. This morning after breakfast we will probably assemble 15 trackers and start testing them. We will resume circuit board assembly but only after all trackers that can be built are built. I can build 4-5 an hour once all the parts are ready and they are.

8:56am getting ready for breakfast.

1:10am Monday morning:
14 trackers are built and are being tested. All that is left on the 25 circuit boards started Wednesday is to mount the heat sink, clean the flux off the solder side, voltage check and inserting and flashing the PIC. All pics are flashed using the serial port. A max232 is plugged in and removed after flashing. All trackers are shipped ready to go with USB only. The USB module can be removed and a max232 installed for serial port usage. Will probably get all that done tomorrow evening but I don't know if we can assemble and test 25 trackers in such a short amount of time. There is a strong possibility we will finish assembly and test at Dayton in the hotel room at at the booth. We really need more than 15 to sell. The success of AMSAT's effort at Dayton could be affected if we cannot meet the demand for trackers. Last year we sold 33.

At 1:14am Monday morning I'm going to bed!!!