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Ande Installation 26-28th January 2009 (by Koniel Idei)

MAF PNG had a HF radio they wanted installed in the Obura Waninara electorate of
Eastern Highlands Province, PNG, and Ande airstrip in the Marawaka valley was chosen, as it is a needy location. It is 4 hours walk to Marawaka station and a two day walk across the Province to Menyamya, in the Morobe Province. Ande is one of those remote isolated places that I've often visited to install radios. There is no road linking communities in this part of the province and the only transport was Aeroplane.

On Monday 26th January, MAF Goroka had a Twin otter flight to Marawaka station and Iwas dropped off with my equipment at Ande airstrip. I arrived around 9 o'clock, after 28minutes in the air, and I had the whole day to finish the job.
After the introductions and necessary talk, the radio was decided to be installed in a clinicbuilt near the airstrip, and so I started my job.

The people were very helpful and happy, always smiling when I ask for needed help, but could not understand the purpose of what they called the "3metre pipe". It was a real surprise to them when the mast was been built on the ground and this telescopic "3    metre pipe" became erected to 12m, and the antenna raised to its top like a flag. I had the whole hauslain (community) watching me and joyfully working, with short breaks for fruits and drink, but mostly talking as they were very interested and keen to learn.
It was a very wonderful moment for the villagers as the first call came back from CRMF, and other stations on the HF network heard Ande transmitting a test call for the very first time. I completed the job at the end of the day and spent the next day training the radio operators.

It was fun, walking around the hauslain, leaning a bit about their life style and the different styles/skills they have. They are a real isolated community and there was a Great Need for the radio to be installed there. They now know what CRMF does for remote communities, missionaries and churches in the nation and were very happy with the service it provides, especially arranging Medivacs and phone patches.

A flight back to Goroka was arranged using the radio and Richard Ebel flew a Cessna 206 in to get me out again. The radio will be used for giving weather reports, arranging medivacs, passing toksave (messages) and keeping in contact with the rest of the world.