Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bbc. Show all posts
25 May 2026

BBC longwave going QRT

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Because of falling numbers and costs to keep it going I understand that the BBC is turning off its longwave broadcast transmitters towards t...
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31 Mar 2026

How to win friends

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 This was a quote from the BBC website. I will let you guess who said it!! "You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself...
21 Mar 2026

End of longwave broadcasting by the BBC?

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Yesterday Steve G1KQH passed on the news that the BBC is likely to stop longwave broadcasts later this year.   The photo shows the Droitwic...
23 Feb 2026

“Lord of the flies “ TV series

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This famous book by William Golding is being serialised by the BBC.  It tells the tale of children isolated on a remote Pacific island follo...
14 Jan 2026

Really?

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Presldent Trump has made some bold claims about the US economy. These have been fact checked by the BBC. See  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/liv...
29 Dec 2025

Uncertain times?

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There was an interesting piece on the BBC website this morning about the state of the world. After a relatively peaceful time since WW2, it ...
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3 Nov 2025

Milking?

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Whenever something sensational happens it seems the media "milks" the story, going on for days and days,  Recently, we had what ap...
6 Aug 2024

Ukraine, Gaza and BBC News - NOT amateur radio

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The Middle East is on the brink of all-out war and the Ukraine conflict goes on. Yet on the BBC news headline pages neither is mentioned! In...
21 Mar 2024

More LF spectrum for amateur radio?

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There is a very interesting piece on John  EI7GL 's blog about the demise of BBC Radio 4 on 198kHz long wave.  Gradually, long wave AM b...
27 Nov 2023

New Zealand reverses smoking ban? - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that New Zealand is to reverse moves which (hopefully) would have phased out smoking. They have supposedly done this to fund...
13 May 2023

BBC weather - NOT amateur radio

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BBC weather rant time.  Today the BBC was saying the clouds would burn back and we would have sunshine and light cloud as they are saying ri...
12 Mar 2023

BBC email? - NOT amateur radio

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I cannot find the BBC email to whom I should send my complaint .  If you know it, please would you share it? My complaint is that nearly eve...
27 Jan 2023

Fame? - NOT amateur radio

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To my surprise, an email I wrote to the BBC regional programme "Look East" was read out on the programme last night. It was about ...
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25 Jul 2022

Myanmar executions - NOT amateur radio

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This saddens me.  The BBC reports that some opposition people in Myanmar (was Burma) have been executed. Now, I do not know the facts admitt...
18 Jul 2022

Russia and Google - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that Russia has fined Google for spreading "fake news" about the "special operation" in Ukraine. Outside...
18 Sept 2021

Internet over free-space optical - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC has an interesting piece about the use of free space optical communications to bridge the River Congo in Africa where optical fibre ...
15 Jul 2021

Matt cartoon - NOT amateur radio

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Everyday, the BBC website has the front pages of the UK's newspapers. One of these is the Daily Telegraph. I just love the Matt cartoons...
22 May 2021

Hypocrisy - NOT amateur radio

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From the outset may I say that we all are less than perfect and we all have things about ourselves we are not proud of and that we would ra...
21 May 2021

Royalty, the BBC and their "religious" correspondent - NOT amateur radio

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In the last few days the BBC has come under a lot of criticism for the underhand methods used to get the 1995 interview with Princess Diana....
24 Mar 2021

Suez Canal blocked - NOT amateur radio

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The BBC reports that a large container ship has run aground in strong winds and blocked the Suez Canal. This is vital artery for world trade...