Up we go!

Today (Thursday Feb 10, 2011) we woke up early and set out to climb the tower to see why exactly the transmitter shuts down when it rains hard. 

(Petri about to climb the tower)

(Liz coming up the tower)

(View of the radio station and two of the antennas)

(Liz hanging from the tower)

(Petri on the tower)

(One piece of the 360 panorama view)

The view was amazing and we found a couple suspects. The plastic around the connection from the cables to the antennas are not level and have no place for water to drain out. 

Petri went up again this afternoon, but the sun set before he could finish.  We’ll both be going up tomorrow to try and fix everything before we leave for Matagalpa. We started on the mobile radio unit, but didn’t finish.

The hours fly by and things slow down considerably after the sun goes down.  People wake up with the sun and thus go to bed considerably early than city folks. We're adjusting.