We heard reports this morning that the signal is loud and clear all over Cuba, including in Havana.  Alberto is elated over this news!

The transmitter had fewer momentary shutbacks last night due to the modifications done yesterday, so there has been encouraging progress.  We are praying that the TWR team here will be able to take care of  any minor issues that might remain.

This morning I helped Tom King do some more tuning in the phasor for the north pattern.  This ended up taking longer than anticipated, but in the end there was great improvement with the reflected power dropping from around 1000 watts (not bad) to about 100 watts.  With 440,000 watts of forward power this is excellent!

Both the Van Dykens and the Kings departed this afternoon.  Tomorrow most of the rest of us ‘temporary workers’ are departing, leaving just the TWR Bonaire permanent staff.  This afternoon and this evening, we are packing in preparation for our departure after church tomorrow.

Before sunset, we went for an hour swim at Bachelor Beach.  By the time we got out we were well cooled off–to the point of having ‘goosebumps’ and close to shivering! We continue to feel cool three hours later.

Pray as we return to Indiana.  Virginia and I are scheduled to leave tomorrow on Delta 380 leaving Bonaire at 4:05 pm and arriving in Atlanta at 7:22 pm.  We plan to stay overnight with my niece and her family in Snellville, Georgia.  Our departure from Atlanta is scheduled on Monday at 3:07 pm to arrive in South Bend at 5:04 pm where the temperature is forecast to be in the teens!

Steve Shantz just came over (7:15 pm EST–8:15 pm Bonaire time) with his computer that was accessing a remote receiver in Key West, Florida.  The program sounded loud and clear with no static, like a local FM station!

Please pray with us for a great spiritual impact from this Bonaire Power Up project.  We have seen God at work in so many ways while we have been here!

This blog will likely be our last entry from Bonaire about this trip.