I get high with a little help from my friends.

One of the tastiest, and most annoying features of working in Afghanistan is that everything you do and everywhere you go is through personal introduction. This is great if you're hungry or thirsty, as personal introduction inevitably means tea or lunch, turning what could be a 15 min endeavor into a multi-hour affair. On the upside, once you're in with someone, you've got your run of their domain. In today's case, that run happened to include a 40m water tower at the Public Hospital in Jalalabad. After seeing no signal whatsoever at OM yesterday, possibly due to an antenna misalignment at the FabLab (below),
we bumped ourselves back .2mi and up 2 storieslinking up at -77db with virtually no packet loss using a 4footer window-screen clad reflector on the FabLab end and our tried-n-true 2 footer on the remote end. Looking at the background noise, you can hear crickets. (the solid line on ch 9 is noise from the local router)Computer troubles prevented a throughput reading, but we'll work that out in the next couple of days and make the trek back out.
The FabLab is just past where the smog blots everything out at the base of the mountain...

More photos here