MOTM

a) I'm going to be able to ship a lot of MOTM orders from now until June 
2nd. There are currently 78 orders in the backlog, I expect this to drop to 
< 45 by June 2nd.

b) if you have either an assembled MOTM-480 or a 480 Extra Parts Kit on 
order: I am having to sort out the CA3280s and this will delay things a bit. 
I hope to have this done by Friday.

c) I am going to order new MOTM-19A rails next week that increase the 
opening of the 'ears' at each end (where the screws go to hold it into the 
vertical rails) so that metric-size racks and screws will fit. I am changing 
vendors so the finish may be slightly different. Just a 'heads up'.

d) I am waiting for MOTM-310 and MOTM-420 pc boards to ship from the vendor, 
they are due May 27th. If you have a kit/assembled module you will most 
likely not see it until the 3rd week of June.

e) Due to non-MOTM activity I will not be able to ship from June 3 to June 
13.

f) I am also going to have the wire/coax requoted next week, hopefully I can 
get a reasonable price so that I can finish out all the kits and assembled 
backlog this summer. I am taking 'vacation' (cough) for 2 weeks in July to 
do nothing but MOTM work, this should be the last effort needed to wipe the 
backlog completely and re-asses where to go from here. The Euro sales should 
provide the cash needed to fund whatever direction I go. By mid-August I 
expect zero backlog, the next Euro module to be shipping (or nearly so), and 
a clear roadmap through 2011. The CG and MT in 5U are proceeding, in fact 
the audio/CV I/O board for the 5U MT will be ready to beta test by the July 
4th 'vacation' (not customer beta testing, internal code debugging beta 
testing). There will be units for customer beta testing in the fall when we 
think the code is ready (and there is a LOT of code, both Linux drivers and 
FPGA Verilog code to implement the smoothing algorithms in hardware).

g) I you have a 2.0 order it will ship this week (expect the '480 stuff, 
maybe.....grumble).

h) I have to wavesolder more pc boards for the MOTM-900s, I expect to get 
them back May 30. I have a few assembled MOTM-900s shipping this week, then 
no more until I get these back (no issue with MOTM-950s).

Paul S.