• 83 years ago

    From MB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 2 14:11:10 2022
    Interestesting Tweet today

    https://twitter.com/Lundavra/status/1565662829792968705



    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters
    closed at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave
    (1149kHz) channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW
    channels (668 & 767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which started
    at 8.15pm.




    I found the original newspaper announcement which I Tweeted in reply.

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 2 14:26:26 2022
    On 02/09/2022 14:11, MB wrote:

    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters
    closed at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave
    (1149kHz) channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW
    channels (668 & 767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which
    started at 8.15pm.

    Once things really kick off this winter, very similar could well be happening.....

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  • From Roderick Stewart@21:1/5 to mark.carver@invalid.invalid on Fri Sep 2 16:23:13 2022
    On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 14:26:26 +0100, Mark Carver
    <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 02/09/2022 14:11, MB wrote:

    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters
    closed at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave
    (1149kHz) channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW
    channels (668 & 767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which
    started at 8.15pm.

    Once things really kick off this winter, very similar could well be >happening.....

    But how many will be listening, I wonder?

    The BBC no longer has control of all the broadcasting services
    available to the British public, and there weren't any websites or
    streaming services 83 years ago.

    Rod.

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  • From MikeS@21:1/5 to Roderick Stewart on Fri Sep 2 21:53:20 2022
    On 02/09/2022 16:23, Roderick Stewart wrote:
    On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 14:26:26 +0100, Mark Carver
    <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 02/09/2022 14:11, MB wrote:

    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters
    closed at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave
    (1149kHz) channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW
    channels (668 & 767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which
    started at 8.15pm.

    Once things really kick off this winter, very similar could well be
    happening.....

    But how many will be listening, I wonder?

    The BBC no longer has control of all the broadcasting services
    available to the British public, and there weren't any websites or
    streaming services 83 years ago.

    Rod.

    Also we are not worried (at the moment) about German bombers using the transmitters as navigation beacons.

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to MikeS on Fri Sep 2 22:25:51 2022
    On 02/09/2022 21:53, MikeS wrote:
    Also we are not worried (at the moment) about German bombers using the transmitters as navigation beacons.

    Speak for yourself. :-)

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Sat Sep 3 09:10:04 2022
    In Northern Ireland, since although on paper the gov relief payments are in law now, they are still arguing between each other as to who does what in
    the executive and no plans to pay the dosh have been done yet.
    Its a great pity that politicians cannot separate their dogma disagreements from the things they need to deal with for the greater good of the public.
    Brian

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    "Mark Carver" <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:jneek3Fl5giU2@mid.individual.net...
    On 02/09/2022 14:11, MB wrote:

    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters closed
    at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave (1149kHz)
    channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW channels (668 &
    767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which started at 8.15pm.

    Once things really kick off this winter, very similar could well be happening.....

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  • From Roderick Stewart@21:1/5 to MikeS on Sat Sep 3 09:26:34 2022
    On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 21:53:20 +0100, MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> wrote:

    On 02/09/2022 16:23, Roderick Stewart wrote:
    On Fri, 2 Sep 2022 14:26:26 +0100, Mark Carver
    <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 02/09/2022 14:11, MB wrote:

    83 years ago tonight: all change on BBC airwaves. All transmitters
    closed at 7pm except for one longwave (200kHz) and one mediumwave
    (1149kHz) channel which told listeners to retune to two other MW
    channels (668 & 767) to hear the new wartime Home Service which
    started at 8.15pm.

    Once things really kick off this winter, very similar could well be
    happening.....

    But how many will be listening, I wonder?

    The BBC no longer has control of all the broadcasting services
    available to the British public, and there weren't any websites or
    streaming services 83 years ago.

    Rod.

    Also we are not worried (at the moment) about German bombers using the >transmitters as navigation beacons.

    No, it'll be the Russians if anybody, and they'll probably use satnav
    to guide their missiles like everybody else. Maybe they'll remember at
    the last minute that the system is operated by the Americans. It
    wouldn't surprise me if there's a plan for this eventuality, involving
    a quick reconfiguration of the satnav system to act as a "return to
    sender" function for nuclear missiles. For a few minutes, all over the
    world, there would be a slight increase in stupid people driving their
    cars into rivers, but Russia would no longer be a problem.

    (I'm sure the Chinese would like to take over the world as well, but
    they'll have more subtle financial ways of doing it because their
    leader isn't the same kind of psychopath).

    Rod.

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  • From John Williamson@21:1/5 to Roderick Stewart on Sat Sep 3 10:35:56 2022
    On 03/09/2022 09:26, Roderick Stewart wrote:

    No, it'll be the Russians if anybody, and they'll probably use satnav
    to guide their missiles like everybody else. Maybe they'll remember at
    the last minute that the system is operated by the Americans. It
    wouldn't surprise me if there's a plan for this eventuality, involving
    a quick reconfiguration of the satnav system to act as a "return to
    sender" function for nuclear missiles. For a few minutes, all over the
    world, there would be a slight increase in stupid people driving their
    cars into rivers, but Russia would no longer be a problem.

    The Russians worked out that GPS is American long ago, so they launched
    their own system.

    At the moment, there are 5 systems in use. GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russian),
    BeiDou (Chinese), Galileo (EU) and NAVIC (Indian).

    (I'm sure the Chinese would like to take over the world as well, but
    they'll have more subtle financial ways of doing it because their
    leader isn't the same kind of psychopath).

    The Chinese are currently buying the World, one company at a time, using
    money from their massive trade balance surplus. At the moment, they are concentrating on Africa. I got caught up in one such purchase in 2011,
    when a Chinese organisation bought the coach company I was working for
    at the time the day before the bailiffs arrived, as well as a few
    others, to use them to promote sales of their coaches here.
    Interestingly, the first few that arrived were really badly designed and
    built, but within two years, they were almost as good as the UK products
    on the market, and a lot cheaper.

    There are now at least three Chinese makes of coach and bus in use on
    the UK.

    --
    Tciao for Now!

    John.

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  • From jon@21:1/5 to Brian Gaff on Mon Sep 5 17:49:00 2022
    On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 09:10:04 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

    In Northern Ireland, since although on paper the gov relief payments
    are in law now, they are still arguing between each other as to who does
    what in the executive and no plans to pay the dosh have been done yet.
    Its a great pity that politicians cannot separate their dogma
    disagreements
    from the things they need to deal with for the greater good of the
    public.
    Brian

    Like the vatican removing three books from the bible, because it didn't
    fit their agenda.

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  • From Richard Tobin@21:1/5 to jon@nospam.cn on Mon Sep 5 19:49:42 2022
    In article <tf5cqc$3kuth$1@dont-email.me>, jon <jon@nospam.cn> wrote:

    Like the vatican removing three books from the bible, because it didn't
    fit their agenda.

    What three books were they?

    -- Richard

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  • From williamwright@21:1/5 to jon on Mon Sep 5 20:22:01 2022
    On 05/09/2022 18:49, jon wrote:
    Like the vatican removing three books from the bible, because it didn't
    fit their agenda.

    Wrong on all counts.

    Bill

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  • From williamwright@21:1/5 to Richard Tobin on Wed Sep 7 06:05:36 2022
    On 05/09/2022 20:49, Richard Tobin wrote:
    In article <tf5cqc$3kuth$1@dont-email.me>, jon <jon@nospam.cn> wrote:

    Like the vatican removing three books from the bible, because it didn't
    fit their agenda.

    What three books were they?

    -- Richard

    More like 14, and they removed them because they were apocryphal.

    Bill

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  • From Richard Tobin@21:1/5 to wrightsaerials@f2s.com on Wed Sep 7 14:10:40 2022
    In article <jnqn4vFiuklU1@mid.individual.net>,
    williamwright <wrightsaerials@f2s.com> wrote:

    Like the vatican removing three books from the bible, because it didn't
    fit their agenda.

    What three books were they?

    More like 14, and they removed them because they were apocryphal.

    The Vatican certainly didn't remove them - check any Catholic Bible.

    It was Protestants who removed them, either completely or to an
    Apocrypha.

    -- Richard

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