| Robbery Arusha Booster January 11th 2002 | ||
 Transmitter hut Kivesi breaking
the timber on the back slizing
the lock hook
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On Friday night, September 11th, at 22 hours suddenly the transmitter in Arusha stopped working. We thought the electricity got cut again as so many times before. Early the next mornig Luka and his Son went up to the transmitter hut to see what happend, since electricity was normal. At the first glance they could not find any problems, but when the boy went around the hut he discovered that some of the timber at the back had been prayed off. Luca went up and looked inside: Someone had cut open the lock hooks with a metal saw, and bent the whole assembly so much with an iron rod, until the locks came off, since we used special hard pad locks, you cannot cut. Down on the shelves nothing of the electronic equippment was left! They must have had a good wire cutter to cut all the antenna cables so easily. So Luka called the director of the studio by phone, and went to the police station, A deligation including the director and engineers of the studio came to Arusha as well to report the theft to the police and left the locks there for finger print identification. The next working day they came up on site again with the police to finish the write up of the case. We are glad no one got killed during the robberey as at the last one at the studio, when one watch man got killed by the robbers. Up to now there is no trace, who may have taken it. All congregations in the area are praying to get the transmitter back, and we receive many calls every day with the question what happened with the transmitter? Even if we could get a spare transmitter, the safety question must be solved first yet. The robbery follows two attempts cutting the cable feeding the transmitter two times during 2001. The following items got taken away: 1.) Crown FM250 Broadcast transmitter Serial#: 14790 2.) Telemetry Radio modem Kantronics KPC-3 Serial#:11k01-07777 plus cables 3.) Albrecht AE550 2 Meter FM-Transceiver Serial#: 9608 173 4.) Voltcraft FPS 8A REgulated DC Power Supply 13.8V 6/8 A 5.) Over/under Voltage protector homemade and trailing socked
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Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Tanzania