Oh, Mercy!

FabFi is on the ground in Afghanistan as of 1/6. The luggage had a rough trip (it exploded in Dubai), but we got all 250lb of it here with no casualties. Of course that's only the beginning of the battle. The shop-bot is still not running, I need to go to the market again in the morning to get chicken wire for the backup antennas we shipped over here, and the first link we're going to attempt tomorrow doesn't even pretend to have line-of-sight. (thanks for mentioning that in the site report...) 2.2mi is cake with the four-footer, sure, but we've never done anything without being able to key the other site in binoculars and this one might not even have adequate fresnel zone. Both buildings are four stories, but there's less than 40' elevation change between the Taj and there, so pretty much anything in-between will be getting in the way (joy). I don't have high hopes that it's going to work without a tower, but I've been suprised by this system more than once so far, so might as well give it a shot...