08-08-09

08-08-09 First day of field work

Today was the first day of actual field work. But first, when we got up, we we enjoyed the wonderfull view around the hotel. It seems that it is much less cloudy early in the morning. We went to Dandabajar, where we were going to finish a telecenter. But first we went to the telecenter in Bheretar and loaded all necesarry equipment. We also lookt at some issues with the bateries and installed a clone image on a computer. After we had loaded the cargo and tight it up on the roof of our Land Rover we went to Dandabajar . It was a one and half our ride across a mountain dirtroad. There were some amazing views on the way to Dandabajar and some scary moments. Once we arrived in Dandabajar we found out that some equipment we expected to be at the telecenter in Dandabajar from the previous visit wasn't there. So we couldn't finish everything. First we got two earth wires installed as well as an ethernet cable. We couldn't connect all of the ethernet cable but we finished as much as we could. Unfortunatly the ethernet cable didn't work. We couldn't get a connection to the radio. It took us quite some time and quite some rewiring until we found out that we used the wrong type of cable. It was close to getting dark so we quiclky installed an outside cable and that worked. Then we drove back to Bheretar. On the way we discussed our plan for tomorrow and how we were going to leave early.

Daan