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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:36:42 -0000
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Subject: Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave
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You are out of date Mal, now =A3145.50.
Hope to be back on 500kHz shortly, unless the marine people have taken=
 it=20
away from us with their new system

73.
Ken M0KHW


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "mal hamilton" <g3kevmal@talktalk.net>
To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave


> Confucius he say IF IT IS NOT PAYING CLOSE IT DOWN
> 1200 staff employed to keep it running !!!!
> =A3140 per licence to BBC and a criminal offence if it is not paid=
 if you=20
> have
> a TV
> G3KEV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Ziegler" <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave
>
>
> John, Pete,
>
>          I'll keep it brief since we are getting further off-topic.
> I have two thoughts on the end of the BBC World Service on Shortwave=
:
>
> 1) The reliance on the Internet for program distribution is worrisom=
e.
> One only need look at Egypt where the Internet is shut down, or Chin=
a
> where it is censored.
>
> 2) The BBC World Service gives the U.K. considerable stature in the
> World, in other words the U.K. is a small country with a big voice=
 and
> international role. Elimination of the World Service will make the
> U.K. just another small, non-descript country in the EU.
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:20 AM, M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Warren
>>
>> My immediate response is that if you like it that much why not pay=
=20
>> English
>> tax to help maintain it.
>>
>> However the BBC world service, the Government mouth-piece, is curre=
ntly
>> funded by direct taxation which is probable more equitable than the=
 new
> plan
>> which is to fund it out of the compulsory so called Licence Fee,=20
>> collected
>> under threat of imprisonment, which is really a tax on a tax i.e.=
 paid=20
>> out
>> of taxed income.
>>
>> This is the dark side of English culture.
>>
>> 73 es GL petefmt
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
>> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
>> Sent: Mon, 31 January, 2011 5:15:48
>> Subject: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave
>>
>> Sad day...
>>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/28/bbc-world-service-cuts-r=
esponse
>>
>> Guess I'll have to rely on the 198 longwave transmissions.
>>
>> --
>> 73 Warren K2ORS
>> WD2XGJ
>> WD2XSH/23
>> WE2XEB/2
>> WE2XGR/1
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 73 Warren K2ORS
> WD2XGJ
> WD2XSH/23
> WE2XEB/2
> WE2XGR/1
>
>
>=20