MOTM

Have been travelling this past week since Tuesday.

a) the new BTI pots for my Euro rack E340 SSAW VCO arrived. They look very 
nice! I can now finish up the pc board layout/front panel design and get 
that module moved into prototype/production. The delivery time was 10 weeks 
which was not bad considering Bourns is 16 weeks.

b) I am ordering a batch of parts to finish up all the VCO kits. The 
schedule is to ship assembled backlog until mid-May, then switch over to 
shipping all the kit backlog. Since Jan 1st, I have reduced the number of 
orders in the backlog by 58. I still have ~ 85 orders left to go. Probably 
50 of these are strictly kit orders, so once I have all the kits ready they 
will ship in 1 week. I will then have a reasonable backlog so after 3 years 
or so I can have R&D time in large blocks. Looking at the cart, I've shipped 
1069 orders since June 2006 with another 32 partially shipped orders.

c) I am ordering parts for the next 'DIY' module, the Yamaha Bandpass VCF. 
The pots are Bourns but 100K linear and 10K linear. These will be in the 
Extra Parts Kit with a few other things. It's a easy-to-build module (about 
like a '420) in 1U width. I am setting aside time the last week of May to 
lay the board out. It's already prototyped so the design is checked out. 
More info later as I get it going.

I know things have gotten a bit "draggy" this spring due to real job travel. 
But by June 1 I still think that the vast majority of orders will be shipped 
out.

d) So far only 2 folks have entered the '730 contest. I'll declare the 
winners (coin flip?) on Monday so if anyone wants to go at it this 
weekend...........

Paul S.