Two-story peach house with pickup truck

Hibiscus House, where we stayed overnight before heading to Torbeck the next day.

Group dining on open-air tropical restaurant terrace

Sunday meal after church.

Person working beside fallen tower in grassy field

Sunday afternoon assessment of the tower site.

Brown cow resting on grass with rope

Local spectator.

Workers assembling red and white radio tower sections

Sorting through the tower sections.  Each is separate and unique and will only fit together in a specific order.

Concrete water tank cover with curved metal handle

Tower base with destroyed tower in the background.

Small white concrete building with red door

Tuning shed.

People pulling rope in palm-fringed field

Transporting the first section to the base.

Collapsed metal tower lying across grassy field

Laying out the sections.

Two people reading documents on bench

They'll figure it out sometime, right?

Man coiling large black cable outdoors

Attempting to salvage the hardline.

Man in red-striped shirt holding hand tools

Annous

Two men renovating room with cinder blocks

The mason getting things ready for that battery shelves.

Workers assembling radio tower in grassy field
Workers installing red communications tower on rooftop

Getting the first tower section in place.

Two men standing in grassy field near tower

Peniel and Lhermon inspecting the progress.

Metal radio tower next to small utility building
Metal radio tower next to small utility building
Workers installing radio tower in rural field
white electrical panel mounted on wall

Inverter installed.

Woman painting interior wall with roller

Getting the new coat of paint on the walls.

Worker handling buckets of cement indoors

Mason boss hard at work.

People installing irrigation tubing in rural field

Getting ready to install insulators on the guy cables.

Group signing papers at small outdoor table

Teresa and Roodly with some kids, working on school homework.

Two solar panels and mounting rails on roof

Getting ready to lay out the first set of panels.

Person wiring Schneider Electric wall-mounted inverter

Harry working on the inverter.

Three boys sitting by crate of sodas

Neighborhood kids.

Men carrying red and white gate across field

Carrying out the last section.

Workers erecting telecommunications tower in field
Workers climbing lattice communications tower in field

Sending the next section up the tower.

Woman with three children outside a doorway

Bernadette, her children, and her nephew.

Red lattice radio tower with guy wires

Progress.

Rural radio antenna tower amid green landscape
Worker installing rooftop solar panels with tools

Inspecting the first bank of solar panels.

Two people working at outdoor wooden table

Keith and Roodly fashioning a bracket from an old engine mounting part.

Leaf-like green insect on bathroom tiles

Interloper in the bathroom at the guesthouse.

Two workers installing solar panel rails on roof

Keith and Roodly working on the rails for the second group of solar panels.

Rows of red batteries on wooden shelves

Batteries set in place.

Tall radio tower in rural green field
Technician repairing pipes and cables in crawlspace

Teresa getting a fresh coat of paint on the ceiling.

Worker on ladder installing ceiling bracket

Ray getting the conduit ready to connect.

Two workers installing rooftop solar panels

Keith and Roodly setting the next set of solar panels in place.

Two people carrying large board on gravel

Harry and Teresa sending the next panel up.

Two workers installing rooftop solar panels
Worker installing rooftop solar panels
Tall radio antenna tower in rural landscape

Almost completed.

Man and boy looking at phone outdoors

Dale and his buddy.

Two men installing rooftop solar panels

Master solar panel installers.

Three men working on electronics equipment
Close-up brown lizard on white stone

More images to come soon!

Torbeck

March 17 - 26, 2018

We installed a replacement tower and solar power generating system at the Hurricane Matthew damaged AM station at Torbeck. 

We also gave a fresh coat of paint to the inside of the transmitter room.

An assessment was made of the condition of the equipment in the tuning shed.  It would need to be repaired and optimized at a later date.

We wish to thank our German friend Helmut for helping out with getting the new cable anchors installed in advance of our arrival on site.