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

[M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi all

 

Forget all vernacular World Service Broadcasts. What the world needs right now is Radio Caroline. She is the British secret weapon of mass enjoyment! Rocking gently and anchor up the Barking Creek (well Tilbury in Essex actually) just waiting for the day when she can once again blast those nasties with 50,000Watts of M/F from an RCA BTA-50H Ampliphase modulated  TX with highly compressed AM ... Rock and Roll . 

 

http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/#home.html

 

Arr those were the days....... mmmmm
 

73 es GL petefmt

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From: Tony <ei8jk@o2.ie>
To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
Sent: Mon, 31 January, 2011 14:58:52
Subject: Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave

On 31/01/2011 13:43, mal hamilton wrote:
> £140 per licence to BBC and a criminal offence if it is not paid if you have
> a TV
> G3KEV
>

Not so Mal, it is only a criminal offence if you watch "live" TV.
It's no longer an offence to have a TV set to play games or watch BBC
iplayer.

It still is here in Ireland though.

73, Tony, EI8JK.


> ----- 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
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>> WE2XGR/1
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> --
> 73 Warren K2ORS
> WD2XGJ
> WD2XSH/23
> WE2XEB/2
> WE2XGR/1
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