Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave

["Ken" <ken.h.wright@btinternet.com>]

You are out of date Mal, now £145.50.
Hope to be back on 500kHz shortly, unless the marine people have taken it 
away from us with their new system
73.
Ken M0KHW


----- Original Message ----- 
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 !!!!
> £140 per licence to BBC and a criminal offence if it is not paid if you 
> 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 worrisome.
> One only need look at Egypt where the Internet is shut down, or China
> 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 
> > English
> > tax to help maintain it.
> >
> > However the BBC world service, the Government mouth-piece, is currently
> > 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, 
> > collected
> > under threat of imprisonment, which is really a tax on a tax i.e. paid 
> > 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-response
> > 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