WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Weekly Top News

TANZANIA 5050.1 (no adjacent spurs detected this time) R. Tanzania,
Dar es Salaam, noted on 11 Mar at 1935-2007 UT, Swahili, Afr pops, nx (?)
2000 UT; 45333. A noisy evening it was.
11735 R. Tanzania, Dole, Zanzibar, monitored on 10 Mar at 1931-1955 UT,
Swahili, Arabic songs; 55444.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX Mar 14)
TOGO Despite several checks mornings and evenings nothing heard on 5047
kHz.
(Gerhard Werdin, touring in GMB, wwdxc BC-DX Feb. 22 - March 8)
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 12035 TWR Africa (pres) from Al-Dhabayya, at 1825-
1830 UT on March 11, ¨language?, songs, s/off at 1830 UT, 34433.
(Arnaldo Slaen-ARG in DX Camp-Chascomus-ARG, Mar 15)
U.K. [Clandestine to Sudan] Sudan Radio Service, 17660 kHz, partial
data form-letter, schedule, info leaflet, business card in 12 weeks, v/s
Tamburo Michael Renzi (SRS Marketing Coordinator).
(Vashek Korinek-AFS, DXplorer Mar 11)
[? via xWoofferton, now Skelton-UK, wb]
West Africa Democracy Radio relay, 17555 kHz, full data QSL letter in six
weeks via the Senegalese address, v/s Abdou Lo (Bilingual Researcher).
(Vashek Korinek-AFS, DXplorer Mar 11)
Tests in summer 2005 via Rampisham-UK site. (wb)
Goonhilly Downs.
BT is to dismantle its Antennae Two dish on Goonhilly Downs, Helston,
Cornwall, one of the biggest man-made landmarks in the county.
The dish was erected in 1968, but BT said it was now at the end of its
operational life and the harsh weather had taken its toll.
It is going to take engineers three months to dismantle the 960-tonne dish
which for years it has carried transatlantic television pictures, along
with millions of telephone calls.
Pictures of the Live Aid concert and the 1984 Olympics came through the
dish.
Goonhilly Earth Station Manager Alan Bradley said the dish had been
involved in many important broadcasts.
He said: "In 40 years, it's been involved all sorts of landmark occasions.
"Any time we used to be glued to the television with the caption 'live by
satellite', most of those pictures came through here."
Much of the steel from the dish is to be recycled, Mr Bradley said.
But he added that a 10-tonne, 10m (33ft), elevation screw that helped
position the dish would be made a permanent exhibit in the site's visitor
centre.
Newer satellite dishes on the site are now carrying transatlantic traffic.
BT said it had no plans to remove any more of the dishes.
The Earth Station at Goonhilly opened in 1962 to participate in the
Telstar project.
(Waveguide, via BrDXC-UK, Mar 13)