Phillip's 2020 Cairns to Cooktown ride for FNQHF

Ride 10 for FNQHF

The ride is done and body parts are recovering.

Raffle results: draw 1 is Christal B (green clock), draw 2 is Doris P (yellow clock).

Thanks to everyone for help and sponsorship in 2020!

Hi,

I am riding in the next Cardiac Challenge fund raiser for Cairns Hospital and the FNQ Hospital Foundation. The FNQHF have obtained official approval for the fund raiser to proceed in a covid-19 safe mode this year with a limited number of riders and also with limits on supporters and others. If any last minute delay occurs, I'll just carry on when it eventually runs but for now, the July approval means we ride in September as scheduled.

For supporters: I am again raffling a hand crafted digital clock amongst my supporters, with the winner having the option of a Kellermeister red wine instead. Obviously, one of these prizes will have a longer shelf life than the other (I try to cater to broad supporters' taste). As you would expect, the digital clock is automatically synchronised with an atomic clock reference ***. For a second prize, there is a 6-pack of Asahi Super Dry with the winner having an option for a Ginger Beer 6-pack (Bundaberg) instead.

The donation web page is https://fundraising.cardiacchallenge.com.au/champion/Cardiac-Challenge-2020/PhillipMusumeci and my acknowledgements web page is at https://pmusumeci.blogspot.com/p/phillips-2020-cairns-to-cooktown-ride.html.

Thank you,
phillip

*** If the raffle winner is into DIY gadgets, they might be tempted by a hacked analogue clock that is also synchronised to a time reference. We shall see.

Other info:

• Ride highlights: Kuranda Range climb, Desailly Range climb, and the Byerstown Range (downhill)! These links show you some of the very attractive scenery. Meanwhile, any engineers on the ride can enjoy Lakeland with Australia's first grid connected battery and solar farm on what is a "leaf node". This route map which was provided for my first ride in 2011 shows extra detail when zoomed in.

• Raffle draw details: the raffle process uses arc4random_uniform() like in this C++ program to obtain a fair result.    

• Raffle prize details: the first prize is a great hand crafted NTP clock which synchronises itself to an atomic accuracy time reference (via a wifi link). Your prize currently looks like the circuit on the left but soon will look like the clock on the right

and the hacker "dream prize" is currently looking like

[using an esp8266 to drive the motor but a GPS receiver is also being tested].

• Thank you messages are below.