Great, thanks Hilton.
Really guys, remember that even if this is not the tower you are gonna connect to it is very likely you will use it for file sharing, gaming etc etc.. so please contribute ANYTHING at this stage.
I have no shame when it comes to asking for money.. so read this: :)
We are only a few guys and we are really struggling to do the job properly! We don't want to have to put up second hand boards, old wireless cards, connectors etc as this degrades the speed / quality across the whole network, so anyone who can, even R50 is good.
The guys that are now on have already contributed a substantial amount and so this is predominantly to the guys who would like to join: If you possibly can, budget for an extra little something for the backbone.
Grant messaged me last night and said the welding is pretty much all finished and the structure is ready for galvanizing. Shoul be going in today (Thurs 16 Oct 08) The hole is dug and he is putting all his free time into it. (he has had to get telkom to move a cable that ran accross his yard buried and had to dig 45m of trench for it, then had to buy thick black pipe to lay the cable in (another R800... so as you see he is a dedicated bugger - I mean wugger! :)
This is so he can swing the tower down without it catching the telephone lines.
So things are happening even if it seems quite!
p.s. Grant has a brand new omni that he said we can use (much newer then the one we were goingto use).
That reminds me, Hilton, if we need more wireless cards (we will need two 5gigs and one 2.4), I believe Dave bought two as a contribution. His new ones should work much better then my 5 year old one/s that came with the board. (cant remember how many were on the board).
