WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

Now Hollyer passes along an account by a Catalan newspaper that Radio
Liberty's antennas at Pals will be blown up on Wednesday, 22 March.
"The days of Radio Liberty's antennas (at Pals) are numbered," the
translated newspaper account states. "After years of speculation on the
disappearance of the radio station's 13 towers, next Wednesday 16 kilos of
explosives will put an end to one of the Costa Brava's most picturesque,
characteristic and conflicting landscapes. All loads will explode at the
same time, at 4 p.m., and after a few seconds the antennas will collapse
towards the beach and the areas without vegetation, at a distance from the
houses there."
The cost of the project is about $1.68 million including the removal of
electric installations and generators, underground gasoline deposits and
concrete antenna guy foundations, the newspaper reported, adding that the
Catalan govt has discussed using the former radio station's main buildings
as a telecommunication museum or offices for a future nature park.
For a historical recollection about the site, see Hollyer's 2003 account
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(via BrDXC, Mar 17)
Las trece antenas de Radio Liberty que el Gobierno estadounidense instalo
hace mas de 50 anos en Pals para transmitir propaganda politica a Rusia y
los paises del Este seran demolidas el proximo 22 de marzo, ha informado
hoy el Subdelegado del Gobierno en Girona, Francesc Francisco-Busquets.
La voladura controlada de las antenas tendra lugar a las 16.00 horas de
ese dia y se utilizaran 16 kilos de explosivos de carga hueca adosados a
las torres, que caeran en direccion a la playa de Pals.
(...)
En referencia a las 33 hectareas de terreno, con 1,5 kilometros de
longitud que quedaran liberadas, el subdelegado del Gobierno ha explicado
que se integraran como zona de dominio publico terrestre-maritimo en el
Futuro Parque Natural Montgri-Illes Medes.
Todavia se esta estudiando la posibilidad de conservar uno de los
edificios de estas instalaciones para instalar un posible museo de las
telecomunicaciones o de la guerra fria.
Lunes, 13 Marzo, 2006 - 07:46 PM Via Boletin TDT
Full report on:
(via Jose Miguel Romero-ESP, Frecuencia DX, Mar 14)
1224 EAK69 COPE-Almeria. Returned my PPC signed & sealed, personal
letter, stickers, pin's. 8 d. V/S: Rafael Carrasco, Tecnico.
Addr: Padre Luque 11, 04001 Almeria, Spain.
1134 EAK17 COPE-Jerez. n/d letter, stickers. 15 d. V/S: Pedro Ochoa
Halcon, Director.
Addr: San Agustin 11, 11403 Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz), Spain.
(Mauricio Molano-ESP, hcdx Mar 16)
TAIWAN Fu Hsing Broadc. Station, 15250 kHz, partial data card, letter,
schedule in five weeks.
Truth For The World relay, 7220 kHz, no-data form letter in 24 weeks. V/s
Don Blackwell (Director of Broadcasting).
(Vashek Korinek-AFS, DXplorer Mar 11)