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4月30日 Radio Tower ProgressOn my way back to Cotahuasi on Saturday, I called Gina Shaw as I was leaving Chuquibamba (last cell phone service until descending into the canyon) to let her know I would be arriving in the evening. She told me the crew was up at the tower site working. As I went by there about 4 hours later, I thought of making the 10 minute drive over there to see the progress but was anxious to get home so I didn't go check. Gina invited me over for dinner with the crew when they got back, so I got to hear how the progress is going. The inner building and the tower are up and the outer wall is almost done. The equipment is finally all here, after being held hostage in customs for about 2 weeks, and the engineers will be here soon to install it. The nearby Claro cell phone antenna now has an electric line running to it, but they aren't willing to sell any electricity to us, so we will be using a diesel generator for the time being. Right now, the best option seems to be to install a small hydroelectric generator at the stream down in Huambo Crater, a little over a mile away.
There are two short term missionaries here now, they are both named Aaron. One of them has been sick so wasn't up to it, but the other one wanted to hike up to the top of Huambo Crater with me on Monday. There was a work team going up to remove the forms from the concrete at the tower site, so we decided to ride up there and help them, and then go do our climb. However when I got to the Shaw's house on Monday morning, Fredy and Aldo were working on the car, a Russian Niva. After waiting about 30 minutes, Aaron saw that they had pulled the transmission and were working on that, so we decided not to wait for them, and started hiking up. We arrived at the tower site in about 2 hours and 40 minutes, and they got there soon after that. By the time we finished helping, it was 2:30 pm and I decided I was too tired and it was too late to climb Huambo so I hiked back down to Cotahuasi, while Aaron and Jeremias started for Huambo. I got home at 6:15, they arrived at 8:30, without making the top because it had gotten too dark. We'll try again another day. There are a few new photos posted.
I'll try to get a report of my recent short trip to the States posted soon.
God bless,
Vic
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