Just happy to be a part of all the madness

Ken Milnes (long time VP Engineering for Sportvision) has kindly stepped up to take one thing off our plate -- an RTK survey of the Ivanpah playa. Ken is the inventor and primary developer of much of our proprietary RTK capabilities here at SV and as such is perfectly suited to setting up the survey system.

The purpose of the survey is of course to know the vertical profile of the lake bed -- this will help us make sure we're not polluting the results by running downhill. We of course expect the bed floor to be pretty damn close to perfect, but it's just good to know.

A few days ago he pulled one of our in-car systems out of the Indy mobile production unit before it headed out for the season. The hardware we'll be using on the playa will actually later be installed and running in one of the racecars during the upcoming Indy 500. We'll try to keep it below 250mph. ;-)

Here Ken is holding a telemetry antenna that will be used to communicate with the base station beacon during the survey.