Mto Wa Mbu

is getting a micro booster

Ready to take off

We fetch pastor Ole Nagole in Monduli

Church in Mtu Wa Mbu

Arrived at the old missionary house

25 years frendship with the partner congregation in Uffenheim Germany

Martin going to work

proon the tree some bit

Setting up the antenna pipe

Everyone is helping

The small Micro Booster station

Antennas in place

We even brought gifts back to the studio from the

congregation

In Monduli we picked up pastor Ole Nangole, the didrict pastor of this area.

It had been night already when we reached Mtu Wa Mbu. We were welcomed by the Congregation in the guest house next to the old missionary house. We got a delicious supper there.

The next day there was a Muslim holiday so we had many helping hands!

After prooning the tree we could put up the antenna pipe and fix it on the water tank concrete structure with bolts.

We fixed the antennas on it and brought the antenna cables down right into the small guest room especially set up for this micro booster.

Then we set up all needed down in the small room. We switched it on but- we could not hear anything! The transmitter in Arusha had not been on air because of a power cut.

While we waited to get receprion we checked the range of the micro booster. It is well covering the small village about 2 km up to the rift and disapears totally then with it. That is exactly how it was planned. Because of the rift we have to fill what is in its shadow.

The people from that village were so glad to listen to the Lutheran Radio centres programmes that they sent some of their products back to the studio: Sweet potatoes, coco nuts, and coocing bananas!

Fiew to lake Manyara just 2 km further up the rift valley