Since many weeks were busy building the new antenna. We could reuse the aluminum pipes left over from the old antenna from the Kilimanjaro transmitter. The antenna should give a strong signal mainly towards Dar Es Salaam and Iringa, since other areas are coverd already by other transmitters.

Around dawn we arrived there and slept in the small village on the way up the mountain.

The next morning many people helped us to bring up the new antenna on the mountain.

It took us about 4 hours to reach the top of the mountain.

While we were mounting the antena carrying pipe the rain started and we had to rest up to next morning. sleeping and coocing with the watchmen.

Unfortunately our transmitter was destroyed by a powere surch while a main electricity company transformer blew.

So we had to repair it first before continuing mounting the antennas.

We finished in the late afternoon and slept again in the village below.

The new antenna gives a lot stronger signal on the way to Dar, and we could hear the transmitter still in Bagamoyo.

We are very lucky about the strong responce coming from Sansibar!

But there are remaining problems:

1. The connection to our transmitter in Kibaya is quite poor, and often noisy. We are working on an alternative link

2. We can run the transmitter just on 50 Watts until the power company has installed a big transformer up there.