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GAMBIA Photo Gallery (1980 -1981)
PAGE 1 This installation also included
Mr Tim Higgins my accompanying engineer
(also with Marconi),
and staff of Gambia
Broadcasting staff.
The stories give far more detail than I
mention here.
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| Definitive summary from 1455 onwards. Recommended. |
Excellent pictorial history of The
Gambia. Recommended. |
Three staff of Gambia Broadcasting take a break during set-up of the antenna systems. | Each ATU cabinet has a combiner for 2x10KW and a rejector (of the other pair's frequency) |
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| A masonry worker cements the ventilation ducts into the wall and makes good. | Part of the RF output cabinet of the Marconi 10KW class AB1 transmitter. A bit messy, I always thought. | Looking down into the power compartment of the 10KW. It consumed about 40KVA. I would run it off biodiesel! | No site survey; we arrived to discover the antenna field flooded to a metre depth in the monsoon. So we constructed ... |
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| 1/8 copper earth strip. I used Easyflo to silver solder it. Then bitumen paint. | In the dry season, grass fires are common. One such destroyed all the stays; replaced with steel. |
Roosting birds Tim and I and the CIA guy decided to go upriver on the boat. |
A riverside village. People are gathering to get on the riverboat. Late afternoon. Pentax SLR |
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Sunday buffet with Kemal, the proprietor of the Fajarah hotel |
Slave Island We did the usual tourist things like visiting Slave Island, a haunting place |
Slave Island The old cannon show the violent nature of its history |
Slave Island They kept the slaves here for the ships that would anchor nearby |
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Slave Island - cannon And down on the pebbly beach I found what looked like human bones |
Tim and I visited Dakar in Senegal. This photo isn't well exposed but the bus looks so weird doesn't it? | Tim & I were returning by road one day when we encountered this initiation ceremony. | Roots Village - where Alex Hailey got the basics for his work, largely, of fiction |
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