Back from Tegus!

Tegus — that’s short for Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. It’s pronounced Te-goose.

The trip last Wednesday to Tegus went very well. I got all our business done with the lawyers and at the immigration office. The flights over and back were spectacular. When you’re cruising at an altitude of only 10-11,000 feet and the mountain peaks beneath you are often upwards of 8,000 feet, it’s a pretty cool experience.

When I’d finished the video it sounded a little like a commercial for Central American Airlines. I didn’t mean for it to come out like that, but it was my first time flying with them, they are a new airline, and they exceeded my expectations. The other airlines here do a good job as well, except when they sell you a ticket for a flight that has already left. (Easier than Slamming a Revolving Door)

I mentioned that, while I was over in the big city, I did some shopping for the radio station. Believe it or not, we still have not completely finalized the dual language project. We haven’t been able to put the new FM computer on line because the motherboard, incredibly, has only two SATA hard drive ports and we need three. There are adapters that let you plug the new drives into the old fashioned IDE ports, but we can’t get them here on Roatán or over in La Ceiba. I found one in the third store I checked while I was in Tegus. So, once Peter gets a few details straightened out in the automation software, we should be ready for the late night chore of putting it on line, when we are off the air after 11 pm. Afterward, I need to rebuild the old FM computer and put it into service as a station for preparing broadcast logs, downloading FTP files, and so on. Then I need to take the computer that now does those chores and get it upgraded to replace the dinosaur Mildred is using for the finances. So there is still a lot of computer building in my future.

I’m juggling all that with trying to get the station’s lawn tractor running properly and installing a line conditioner in the audio shop so we can get 220 volts to the air conditioner. It doesn’t like running on the 198 to 205 volts that the electric company gives us. Peter and Sandi leave for a three month furlough in less than four weeks, and we are still getting ready to replace the guy wires on the AM tower over on Utila. So our plates are full — as usual.

I hope you enjoy the scenery in this video as much as I did while recording it.

Trip 2 Tegicigalpa from Jerry Petersen on Vimeo.