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Success

I spent the day working at the MAF hangar, attempting to get the GATR commissioned and on the network. I kept having to stop. First to help load a truck with VSAT equipment that is going to a mountain village. The VSAT will provide Internet connection for a Partners In Health clinic. Then I was stopped at least two more times because of rain, then again to build a shelter so I could cover the electronic equipment, then again to get inside when a lightning storm rolled through, and then in the end ran into technical difficulties.

I went to dinner with the students and instructor of the VSAT installer class, and that was at an MAF pilot's house. After dinner I went back to work in the back yard of the house I'm staying out, and set up the GATR. That's not snow in the photo, it's rain. By 12:30 AM I was online with the GATR. I was excited, because this is the first time the GATR has been used on C-band, and important next-step in MAF's desire to use this cool technology for disaster response and humanitarian relief work.

Posted by David at February 27, 2008 02:47 AM