When I awoke it was with a start, didn’t open my eyes but my senses were on red alert trying to find out what had startled me. After a while it came to me, there was an eerie silence, yaani the silence was too loud, sikua nimezoea hivo as I lived next to the main road and vehicular sounds were the order of the day and night. While still trying to figure out the silence nikaskia a cock crowing in the distance, after a second or so another cock answered, but this one sounded like it was right on top of me, as I sat up on the bed I opened my eyes and found myself in a strange ceiling less room, the cock was right up there in the rafters looking down at me, the walls were unplastered while the floor was not done, just the bare slab, then on the single sofa in the room nikamona (Mwende) and it all came back. Psat….….Sat dish……Kibwezi….Mwende……kukosa signal……kulewa…. .
Lets start from the beginning
In mid 2008 after the violence and tension had gone down mimi pia nilikua nimerudi job na hobby yangu ya sat hunting ilikua imeshika mbaya, from 1 dish in 2004 I now had 8 and I used to tinker and dance with them every now and then searching for new channels, this was possible coz I had discovered internet sat forums, I registered in all but the best zile zilikua zanisaidia ni Nairaland and africasat viewers on RDI forum (This is where I met our an Doc). Kila siku nikifika home nilikua nachungulia huko nione kipi kipya ndio nichokole mitambo. In july I struck GOLD. On Nailaland kuna jamaa alisema a scrambled channel known as Psat inafunguliwa na dongle na ni ya blacks porn 24/7. Mbio mbio nikaingia inbox nikamuuliza where do I get the dongle as I already had a dish pointed to that sat. Jamaa hakua mchoyo and he gave me a local number to call. Within two days I had my dongle na Psat channel ya kusafisha mecho ikafunguka, raha ilioje. This was unheard of in 254.
Saa hio hio nikaona hii ni biz opportunity and I contacted a few guys I had done installations for, watu wa satellite hua wabishani sana na lazima waone ndio waamini, so I called the local contact and ordered for 5 dongles, kila myamaa akiingia kwa nyumba alikua anabeba dongle akajifungie and for newbies would go and set them up. (si watu wanapenda porn) By the time I made my 4th order to the local contact we were now friends and he opened up to me, aliniangushia classified info eti if I connect my dongle to 2 sats ie 36e and 7e nitapata Big Bro (D.S.T.V) channels for free. This was unbelievable news and couldn’t wait to get home to try it out. True enough after doing the connections BB channels zote zikafunguka, I forgot about Psat for a while as I surfed through all the premium channels while thinking of vile kitunguu itanuka sasa.
Jamaa wa kwanza kuita was my immediate neighbor, alikua sumbua sana akiniuliza what do I do with 8 dishes, siku hio aliona na mdomo akatoa mbesha nikangoa ndish zangu mbili nakumfanyia connection, he used to be on BB compact but now he could enjoy premium for free, next all my customers were reigned in one by one, if you had one dish we would buy another one and you would enjoy the power of the dongle to the fullest, Psat + BB. Life was good.
Late july kaa na angalia Le Tour De France my neighbor akaingia na visitor (lets call him Kimeu) who was a vehicle salesman in town, he had told him the great news and Kimeu was interested, I gave him the remote akabrowse channel zote lakini kufika kwa Psat aka kwama, hehehe, mkamba na ngwati, tuliangalia several episodes for like half an hr and by then his mind was made up, lazima apate hizi channels zote but there was a hitch, Kimeu wanted the installation done at his rural home in Kibwezi and he wanted the whole works. (One big 6ft dish and 2 small ones) nikamwambia ata kwa 40k huko siwes enda, still had muarabu to think about. Kimeu akasema atanipea 50k nikienda kumsort, alisema area kwao ndio stima ilikua imefika na alikua na kanyumba watu wanaeza angalia tv for a charge. 50k was too tantalizing for Meria kukataa, ata ile 40k nilikua nimeropokwa tu, this was a nice deal. I took out a note bk nikamwandikia requirements
6ft dish 15k
90cm dish 9k x2 = 18k
Astrovox 290 decoder 12k
Dongle 15k
LNBs wires pins diseq switch and assorted sat paraphernalia 8k
Total 68k (bei was highly inflated)
Kimeu aliangalia ile list akaniuliza how soon I can get the equipment kamwambia 2 days max, (saa hio nilikua nachora vile nitadanganya muarabu) aliingia kwa mfuko akatoa 69k, 1k was for fare. This guy was serious. We exchanged numbers, shook hands and agreed I would call when I was ready. After I saw them out my neighbor alirudi a tukaenda ulevi sacco ya jioni
That night I called my contact and placed my order, vile ni vitu mob he agreed to deliver to my hse, theres no way anybody ata wa leo can miss my hse, iko kwa mainrd na kuna a lot of dishes huko juu although saa hii sio nyingi kaa kitambo (internet manenos). Nilichelewa job nikigojea hio package but by 8 it was delivered na nikalipa, my contact then gave me a lift into town akanipeleka mpaka job.
Hio siku kazi ilikua nyingi kaa shit, one truck was stuck at kinango and another one at Mavueni, vile road patrol ilitoka kwa yard my crew waliangaliana tu wakishindwa nini mbaya na Meria, we started with the one at kinango na by midday ilikua imeamka laboring back to Mombasa alafu tukashika njia ya maliakani kaloleni headed to mavueni, those days it was a dusty track sio kaa siku hizi iko nyweee, hio truck ilitusumbua hadi saa kumi na moja jioni and by the time it limped into the yard it was past midnight, kufika kwa nyumba nikajidai kuangalia Psat lakini was dead tired nikaenda kulala.
Following morning there was just one truck at samburu to rescue na hio haikusumbuaafter kurudi yard saa nane ndio plan yangu ya kupata off ikaanza, every 5 minutes was running to the wash room alafu nakaa tu sana, by 3pm nikaambia mkumbwa nimeshindwa kuvumilia I needed to rush to hosi a nipe ka advance hivi, he reminded me vile yeye huambia watu wake wote eti chakula cha jiani ni kibovu na I must have eaten something rotten at Samburu, anyway nikapewa 2k and he wished me quick recoverly. Ata aliniitia tuktuk inifikishe hosi.
Kutoka kwa gate hivi I called Kimeu and told him am free for the next one day na kila kitu iko tiyari, akasema nimpate kwa showroom hukoside za railway. I watched a master at work as he sold two cars and by 6pm tukachukua vitu home na safari ya kibwezi ikaanza. Kabla kufika kibarani jamaa akapigiwa simu eti kuna mteja wa haraka arudi showroom amsort, sisi hao tukapinduka na Kimeu akanukisha kitunguu usiku saa mbili, this guys who bought a car at night were also headed to Nairobi na tukaandamana on the A109
Tulifika mtito kindu 1am hivi na safari ikaishia hapo after taking one too many drinks, tukipewa I was eyeing some yeloyelo Cambodians but Kimeu discouraged it, he said tukifika Kibwezi he had something special for me, kamcheki tu kajua ni ulefi inaongea. Tulikunywa hadi chee. All the while Kimeu was asking whether Psat itashika huko kichakani name namwambia awache waswasi
Around 10 ndio tulitoka Mtito put the pedal to the metal na within an hr tukafika rural kibwezi kwa kina kimeu, this guy was doing good in the car sales hustle, he had a new commercial building in the local shopping center and a km away ndipo alikua anajenga pigsty yake ya 3 bedroom, ilikua imebakia finishing tu, all that was remaining was plaster and glass panes for the windows and metal doors, meen, I envied this guy, why lie. The care taker was Mwende, cousin yake, mtoto wa kikamba alikua ameumbwa akaumbika, tall, brown with curves and bumps at all the right places and the whitest teeth id ever seen on a girl, she was wearing a simple flowerly dress with buttons at the front all the way from top to bottom, in my head I unbuttoned them one by one slowly, Kimeu saw me staring akasema sinilikuambia. Nikameza mate, Nikaweka my overnight bag huko tukarudi mungetho kuanza kazi.
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