December 11, 2009 @1926 Hours
by: Bob Iannucci

Wow. It has been a long time since we had some news to report. But now, the big buzz around RAI Laboratory is the upcoming release of FoxHunt, our direction-finding application for iPhone. FoxHunt was designed for the amateur radio foxhunter and is a replacement for the compass, map, ruler, pen, GPS, eraser, and crying towel that were common during the Dark Years in direction-finding. FoxHunt:

• Tracks every bearing you take and records it in the in-phone database.
• Does all of that nasty magnetic declination stuff ("Let me see, do I add or subtract?").
• Is mistake-tolerant. You can rate your own bearings - so the ones you are really confident about are distinguished from the ones you think may be wrong
• Automatically computes and maps the intersections of your bearing lines.
• Based on the importance you assign to your bearings and the derived importance of the intersections, automatically computes the probable location of the "fox"...
• (cool part begins here)... and, using the built-in goodies in the iPhone, gives you driving directions to the fox. (end of cool part)

Take a sneak-peek at the website for this upcoming app at foxhunt.rail.com.

August 13, 2006 @2307 Hours
by: Robert Iannucci Jr

If anyone is reading these news bites anyway, we've recently made tremendous progress on the RAI Laboratory LLC site overall, including, but not limited to:

• A complete re-working of the site style.
• A state-of-the-art eCommerce site.
• Actual content on the pages!

Expect to see rapid progress on all fronts in the near future. Check out the hardware page and live in awe :-).