Brisbane Airport: Qantas Club

I am now in the QANTAS CLUB in Brisbane Airport – the second airport I have been to today – waiting for my flight. I think I have about another 80 minutes until I need to board my flight home. I was going to be meeting a friend up here, but he is not available. Such is life. I get the chance to have some food, and then maybe watch a DVD, surf the web or something else.

Today has been frustrating at times. We have been battling RF interference all day. Well, we think that RF interference is an issue, and I think we have confirmed it. Yes, we have. GPS works by receiving signals from a number of satellites. And I finally twigged that we should not be getting good signals from all the satellites we were randommly trying to listen to in a sealed metal room where we should not have been getting any satellites.

Thankfully we think that we have traced this issue to a CPU that is very noisy, and interfereing with lots of things. By placing a metal plate over the CPU things have got a lot better – at least until we got to Boonah Airport for a test flight. Then things did not work so well. On the way to the Brisbane airport we summised that we probably had a device at the Boonah airport that was interfering with us. This was also evident when we found that the devices would work one way and not the other…

The upshot was that I did not get a chance to do any flying… I am actually a bit dissapointed.

What I found commical was seeing an ultralight land and take off… This really reminded me of the Mad Max movie, with this device that looks like a bicycle with wings land and take off with people wearing helmets with earmuffs and goggles. The goggles just topped off the image!

After all this I have one unit in my bag to play with… And we have a product that is not yet flight testes, and has some issues… However the issues should be fixed within the next few days!