I just got off a conference call to the USA. I ended up being on the phone for a touch over two hours. This is one of two board meetings a year that actually takes place, with a mailing list used for the rest of the time. It was a call with TAPR, a wireless non-profit R&D organization that has proved that many technologies used today in the wireless world actually do work.

They asked me what sort of Pizza they needed to order for me, but found out that Sydney was not in their normal delivery area. And I was so looking forward to having some.

The call was interesting, although I cannot say much about it. One thing that I did hear an update on was SuitSat – the Satellite in the SpaceSuit that I have spoken about here before. This is almost complete, although I am not sure when it will be ‘Lauched’. The satellite is being launched to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Bauman Technical University in Rusia.

My software for the tracker is getting closer – I made a very small change this morning. It was adding a position report when it connected to the network. But I worked out that this was not really needed since it was already sending enough information back since it had to need to send a position. Small change, but important.

I am feeling a sense of acomplishment about the tracking unit – getting the hardware and software to this stage has been a hard slog, but it is there. Anyway that is enough of a break from work – time to do some more work…