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Off To Visui

It looks like Dale and I will be heading off to the south repeater tomorrow. He was up there just last week, and has determined that he needs to replace a panel that has to do with the battery charging system. Today he went up to the north repeater site to get one a spare panel. The north repeater is much easier to get to. In order to reach the south repeater, we'll fly to Visui, then hike for three or four hours to reach the summit of a peak on a nearby range. We'll go if the weather is good in the morning, and we'll make it back home if the weather is good in the afternoon. If we don't get a flight out of there, we'll likely walk a couple hours by flashlight to reach Makuma, where we can stay with one of the missionary families there.

In other news, we are supposed to get a shipment of avgas in the morning--2000 gallons. We'll have to wait and see if it actually happens. We also received the motor for HC-BQV today. It's finally returned from the US, where it was inspected after the landing accident at Kuakash earlier this year.