St. Helena, Mast Bases above Prosperous Bay Valley
Bases for one of the many masts erected on Prosperous Bay Plain which formed part of the SIGINT operation monitoring communications to and from the, then, newly independent states of West and Central Africa. The Saint Helena Airport Environmental Statement references the Diplomatic Wireless Station (DWS) established in 1965. The station being centred on Longwood, with a power station at what is now Bradleys Government Garage and two separate groups of transmission masts, one on Deadwood Plain and the other on the edge of Prosperous Bay Plain to the southeast of Cook’s Bridge. These masts were still in existence in 1983, but have since been dismantled: the concrete mast bases still survive. The operation ceased in the 1980's.
St. Helena, Mast Bases above Prosperous Bay Valley
Bases for one of the many masts erected on Prosperous Bay Plain which formed part of the SIGINT operation monitoring communications to and from the, then, newly independent states of West and Central Africa. The Saint Helena Airport Environmental Statement references the Diplomatic Wireless Station (DWS) established in 1965. The station being centred on Longwood, with a power station at what is now Bradleys Government Garage and two separate groups of transmission masts, one on Deadwood Plain and the other on the edge of Prosperous Bay Plain to the southeast of Cook’s Bridge. These masts were still in existence in 1983, but have since been dismantled: the concrete mast bases still survive. The operation ceased in the 1980's.