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Hi,
The photo is not the old radar site but the old RAF Dingli HQ office building including some staff living quarters and the upper section was the Malta Aircraft Homer. The building on the right is the old MT gargage The homer was used to guide aircraft both service and civil to Malta and also through out the Med area.
I was stationed here at RAF DINGLI 203 SU from 1955 until 1957, SAC Dave Tupling at the transmitter section. The station had an average staff of 50 including two officers two Sgt's two Cpl's two clerks two MT drivers, the remaider working 24 hour none stop at the radar site as radar operators etc or the transmitter site as radio machanics etc or homer operators in the tower in the photo. The radar site was situated about half a mile along the cliff path to the right of the photo, the transmitter site was where the new radar dome is now.
This photo was taken outside of what was Paula's cafe which was used by all the personel as our naffi.
If you go to the Service Pals web site you will find many photos posted there of RAF Dingli 203 SU camp but I will post some here on this site of the camp as it was.
BarDav
hi ah nostalgia i was at dingli briefly in 1958,i dont recognise that as the homer ,my recollection was that it was atop a lattice mast one had to climb up a ladder to get to the platform which housed the vhf df cabin and bellini tosi antennae.
spent lot of time up there with the operator as i was not doing much after ta silch closed and i was being shuffled around doing sod all really.
i after over 50 years may be going dotty but that stone building looked not what i remembered.
still nice reminiscing ....
geoff weale...ex cpl ground radio trade
Hi I can assure you that was the RAF Dingli homer and yes you did climb a wooden stair case to get into the top section where the operator worked in 2 1/2 years i was stationed there I climb up into the homer hundreds of time. The last time I was there in the 1970s and up the tower all the homer equipment had been removed but our names were still carved into the stone at the foot of the stairs as we did on our leaving Dingle for the last time and posted back to UK.
Very nice photos. i am very interested to make contact with you as I served with RAF Malta between 1961 and 1979 and later I was responsable for the setting of the present radar site with Malta Civil aviation. Basically I was a Ground Radio Chief Tech with the RAF and I worked on the 1131 VHF Tx and 1392 Rx.
I am interested in the historic facts and I think I can learn much more about RAF Dingli from you.
One aspect I am interested is that I always heard that an airman was electrocuted at RAF Dingli. Do you know anything about this incident?Ż
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Hi, The photo is not the old radar site but the old RAF Dingli HQ office building including some staff living quarters and the upper section was the Malta Aircraft Homer. The building on the right is the old MT gargage The homer was used to guide aircraft both service and civil to Malta and also through out the Med area. I was stationed here at RAF DINGLI 203 SU from 1955 until 1957, SAC Dave Tupling at the transmitter section. The station had an average staff of 50 including two officers two Sgt's two Cpl's two clerks two MT drivers, the remaider working 24 hour none stop at the radar site as radar operators etc or the transmitter site as radio machanics etc or homer operators in the tower in the photo. The radar site was situated about half a mile along the cliff path to the right of the photo, the transmitter site was where the new radar dome is now. This photo was taken outside of what was Paula's cafe which was used by all the personel as our naffi. If you go to the Service Pals web site you will find many photos posted there of RAF Dingli 203 SU camp but I will post some here on this site of the camp as it was. BarDav
Thank you for all that but I can't see any difference in your suggested position move.
hi ah nostalgia i was at dingli briefly in 1958,i dont recognise that as the homer ,my recollection was that it was atop a lattice mast one had to climb up a ladder to get to the platform which housed the vhf df cabin and bellini tosi antennae. spent lot of time up there with the operator as i was not doing much after ta silch closed and i was being shuffled around doing sod all really. i after over 50 years may be going dotty but that stone building looked not what i remembered.
still nice reminiscing .... geoff weale...ex cpl ground radio trade
Well I wouldnt know as I was still at school at the time. Perhaps the mast has been dismantled?
Hi I can assure you that was the RAF Dingli homer and yes you did climb a wooden stair case to get into the top section where the operator worked in 2 1/2 years i was stationed there I climb up into the homer hundreds of time. The last time I was there in the 1970s and up the tower all the homer equipment had been removed but our names were still carved into the stone at the foot of the stairs as we did on our leaving Dingle for the last time and posted back to UK.
Very nice photos. i am very interested to make contact with you as I served with RAF Malta between 1961 and 1979 and later I was responsable for the setting of the present radar site with Malta Civil aviation. Basically I was a Ground Radio Chief Tech with the RAF and I worked on the 1131 VHF Tx and 1392 Rx.
I am interested in the historic facts and I think I can learn much more about RAF Dingli from you.
One aspect I am interested is that I always heard that an airman was electrocuted at RAF Dingli. Do you know anything about this incident?Ż
Major Tony Abela rtd
sorry I did not give you my email contact
it is ninton22@gmail.com
I presume that is addressed to BarDav32.