We HERE!!!

We made it to our hotel in Nashville about 9:00 last night.  We would have made it sooner, but Adam made a wrong turn at the last minute, and we spent about 20 minutes driving around Nashville trying to find our way.  We picked up a map of Nashville at a tourist center, but in the end it was the satellite image I printed off for the WiFi race that got us going in the right direction.

So today PhreakNIC begins, and the RootWar.  I should be meeting Jeff soon and we’ll work on setting everything up.

I managed to come up with some decent wifi equipment, though I had to hack together some adapters so I could connect the high-gain omni-directional antenna to my laptop.  Thankfully, I brought my soldering iron with me and I managed to get it all working.  I haven’t done any field testing yet, so I really don’t know how much distance we’ll get with our equipment, but the general idea is we’ve got an omni-directional antenna that we’ll try to mount on top of the van, and a directional antenna that will be in the van with us, mounted on a tripod.  The omni-directional will let us know we’re in the vicinity of our target, and the directional will help us figure out exactly where the target is.

In other news, Gutsy Gibbon was released yesterday, so I’m upgrading now.