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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Monday 12 March 12 11:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bill. Yup, I can see my error now. Comes from trying to mark it after one has zoomed out. Those fields all look the same from a distance. All the same drab colour.

regards
Gordon

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Saturday 10 March 12 16:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bill. Yes we finally got there together.

Just to broaden your shots out a little, I think this will firmly guide anyone else to the location, that are not quite as intimate with the locality as we now are.

I just hope our search for the HF DF station doesn't take as long.

It's been nice chatting.

Regards
Gordon

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Saturday 10 March 12 13:37 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry Bill, I think it's me. Before I post another wrong view, can you confirm from Google the latitude and longitude of the building in question is around about 35.85, 14.37.

If you right click on the building then select 'what's here' it should come up with the figures.

Part of the problem has been with regard to the level of zoom and size of display. As one zooms in closer so the words Triq Panoramika come up more often along the road.

I think I've got it this time but would like to be sure.

Any idea how I can remove the entries with the wrong locations?

regards
gordon

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Friday 09 March 12 22:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bill, had another go. If I've managed to follow your directions this time, the marker pin is the nearest I could get it to where I think you meant.

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Thursday 08 March 12 18:59 GMT (UK)  »
I think I've followed your directions correctly and have tried uploading.

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Thursday 08 March 12 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bill. Thanks for the message and glad to see you have a location for the 504. I haven't given up completely for the HF DF as around 1963/4, although not in operation, the building was used by RAF amateur radio operators based at Siggiewi. Someone out there knows its location, and hopefully through various sites and other contacts we may be as successful as yourself. Is there any way you might be able to post a map/satellite location for the 504 for other interested parties to see?

Regards

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Tuesday 06 March 12 21:34 GMT (UK)  »
Many many thanks. I hadn't expected a reply this quickly.

Information there that I did not know about the unit's demise so the start of another learning curve. I was fairly confident that I had worked out the location judged from a photo on the net. Surprising how some things changed, but some not. Main reason for contact requirement was regarding a HF direction finding station which as far as we can determine was in the fields near RAF Siggiewi, which as far as we can determine ceased operation around 1960. There are those of us who believe that these old stations, wherever they may have been, should have a far more evident history, readily accessible to all.

Nothing to do with war memories but actual fact. They existed, human beings worked there and therefore someone may want to know about them. Some to trace ancestors. Some to 'bury ghosts'. Currently the reason for the search is probably the latter. We just can't pin it down. You must know what it's like.

Currently I am residing in the High Wycombe Buckinghamshire area, my last posting having been to HQ Strike Command, as was, at Walters Ash. Ex directory but if you are an amateur radio operator registered on qrz.com or with the RSGB, my call sign is M0GGW, if that's permitted on this posting.

Once again many thanks for your efforts.

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World War Two / Re: RAF AMES 504 Dingli Cliff Malta
« on: Monday 05 March 12 13:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Bill 247. Caught your posting which appears to be 5 February 2012. Although not searching for the radar site, I am searching for another radio site nearby and one other near RAF Siggiewi. I notice you refer to a Maltese Major who helped set up the current radar. Is this by any chance Major Tony Abela, formerly RAF and then, I'm assuming, AFM. If so I have been trying to track him down without success for over eighteen months. Can you offer any assistance in that direction. The site I am researching was a radio relay link to Il Qortin in Gozo in the early to mid sixties and from vague memory was located in a single story building, I think between the current radar and the AMES unit. Your efforts have been appreciated as it is helping to narrow down the area which I am looking for.

Any assistance appreciated by myself and two others, in connection with a new website for RAF Siggiewi.

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