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Repeater Trip Scrubbed

Our trip to the repeater has been scrubbed. It's rainy and cloudy, both here and out in Makuma. I don't know what happened to my post of late yesterday, but I thought I wrote a bit about that in here. MAF has a couple VHF repeater antennas. One is to the north of Shell, and the other is south of here. Every six months or so they need to be maintained. New batteries, work on the solar panels, whatever needs to be done to keep them operational. The planes use the VHF radios, which are line of site radios, thus the need for the repeater towers. The planes also use HF radios. So here I sit wearing rubber boots and a thick layer of bug spray, all in anticipation of a hike through the jungle to the top of a mountain. I think I'll walk home and put some shoes on.