[SFDXA] Fw: Update from Malawi

[Randy Shirley]

Thought I would forward this, just in case there was any interest..

-----Original Message----- 
From: rene hasper
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 2:40 PM
To: KARI at LEINO.FI ; xe2at at hotmail.com ; * Colin Cortina ; 
9a4hp.drasko at gmail.com ; a45wd at yahoo.com ; aa5am at arrl.net ; ai5i at arrl.net ; 
Al Ward ; Alexandr Anisimov ; Anders Jonsson ; Andrzej H ; Antonio Matias ; 
Antonio R. Gomez ; Ants Randmaa ; ashafers at neo.rr.com ; bernie at sopris.net ; 
bg6cjr at 163.com ; Bjorn Straath (sm5cfs) ; brian_pennebaker at yahoo.com ; 
brians at fl240.com ; call at btinternet.com ; Charles Girardet ; Chris SP4K ; 
Dagmar Veen ; df1an at darc.de ; df1jc at t-online.de ; DG1VL at darc.de ; 
DK3XT at darc.de ; dl6ii at darc.de ; dl6mi at darc.de ; dl6zau at darc.de ; 
eb5eeo at cibagar.com ; Enric Fraile ; ev.g at gmx.de ; f0cxo at wanadoo.fr ; 
F4EZJ16 at GMAIL.COM ; f6arq at laposte.net ; f8ggd at f8ggd.com ; 
fcostarelli at msn.com ; fortgoggin at aol.com ; g1mhu at hotmail.com ; 
g4hgi at live.com ; g5pilot at pobox.com ; g8gxp at blueyonder.co.uk ; Giorgio Marchi 
(gmail) ; heinz-borde at t-online.de ; hl4ght at hanmail.net ; 
HS0ZFZ at moonbouncing.net ; ik7uxy at libero.it ; ik8yss at hotmail.it ; 
iv3cyt at yahoo.com ; Jan Lustrup ; JE1TNL ; jean-jacques jouffroy ; Jim Barr ; 
johan at ipnetworking.se ; John Morris ; jplanas at in2sa.cat ; juan bertran ; 
Juan Clemente ; JunorWider at msn.com ; k.siwiak at ieee.org ; k1ka at comcast.net ; 
k1sce at arrl.net ; k6jeb . ; k7bv at aol.com ; ka1rrw at yahoo.com ; KC3OL ; 
kf6a at arrl.net ; Krunoslav Rakicic ; lincolnolli at web.de ; Mail ; 
mald14 at mail.ru ; Martin Essenberg ; Mika Karimäki ; Mike Davies ; MIKE TEBO 
; Mike Thompson ; n5kda at bellsouth.net ; n6spp at arrl.net ; oh3dp at arrl.net ; 
om3bc at om3bc.com ; on4hf at telenet.be ; On7uc at uba.be ; Oz1gpi at kromann.info ; 
pa0c at amsat.org ; pa3cmc at veron.nl ; pa5km at zeelandnet.nl ; Pete Rimmel ; 
pv8dx at arrl.net ; r7lv at dx.ru ; ra9da at yandex.ru ; ra9n at bk.ru ; Randy Shirley ; 
Richard Goodman ; rk1as at list.ru ; RL3DE at MAIL.RU ; Roger Cox ; Rolando Milin 
; Ron Croucher ; rt3w at mail.ru ; ru3gx at mail.ru ; Serg Lebed ; 
sm7fwz at arlembke.se ; steveb29 at comcast.net ; Stig Vestergaard ; TheEa4sv . ; 
ua4aql at qsl.net ; vadim at dunkel.su ; ve7day at telus.net ; vhfham at gmail.com ; 
w0wfh at yahoo.com ; w5zn at w5zn.org ; w9nheted at wi.rr.com ; wd4kpd at suddenlink.net 
; William Blazina ; wj4w at bellsouth.net ; wolte2001 at zonnet.nl ; 
yl2fz at apollo.lv ; yliroma at gmail.com ; Yuri ; zen70432 at zen.co.uk ; Владимир 
Резник ; Николай Банщиков ; Сергей Будлянский ; Сергей Лебедев
Subject: Update from Malawi

Hello moonbouncers,

Thursday we started to build up a bit. It was very warm, so we did it
in a slow way, surprising how we adept so quickly to the African way
of working!
It is the end of the rain season, last night we were surprised by a
heavy tropical storm and a lot of rain. In the morning we went down to
the beach to see if the antenna still was up, it was but a part had
sunk in the sand. We managed to get a better base. The 144 MHz is
almost ready, and we spent a lot of time to put reflecting foil on the
dish for 23,13 and 9 cm. All on schedule for the higher bands.
We still are struggling with electricity. There are 3 phases (for a
waterpump, that got stolen btw), but we want 2 phases 230V. We are
working on this too.

We will be QRV tomorrow. Because of the conditions, we will start on
our moonrise, see below.
We stay at a lovely place, we only had three times fish until now and
that is is something different.
Malawi is a very poor country, average life expectation is under 40.
Big families with 6 children is common. There are about 30 people
working in this resort. It is a strange feeling to see so much poverty
around us, this is the worst we have ever seen. But as always we want
to have direct contact with the people as much as possible and spend
our money direct to them.

However, Saturdayevening (UTC time) we will be QRV from our moonrise
at 22:20 UTC on 144.134 MHz, 7Q7EME always first.