OT. Radio during WW2?

"Michael Chare" wrote in message
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There was Lord Haw-Haw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Haw_Haw

"Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany just as the war
ended, tried, and eventually hanged for treason on 3 January 1946. Joyce's
defence team, appointed to him by the court, argued that, as an American
citizen and naturalised German, Joyce could not have been convicted of
treason against the British Crown. However, the prosecution successfully
argued on the basis of a technicality that having lied about his
nationality to obtain a British passport and to vote, Joyce owed
allegiance to the King."

Loyalty based on a lie?

Very dodgy bit if law! (Typical of wartime and its aftermath.)

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Max Demian

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David wrote:
I know some of you are older and retired, such as Charles, maybe you can
answer me a question.
During the WW2 was there only the BBC and the Home Service?

There were, as before, overseas broadcasts that could be received in the
UK.

I know the Light programme started, or maybe restarted at the end of the
war in 1945.

There was something called the Forces Programme which started broadcasting
during the war - and this sort of became the Light Programme afterwards.

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Peter Duncanson wrote:
On Mon, 4 May 2009 18:45:23 +0100, "David"
wrote:

I know some of you are older and retired, such as Charles, maybe you
can answer me a question.
During the WW2 was there only the BBC and the Home Service?
I know the Light programme started, or maybe restarted at the end of
the war in 1945.

Yes.

There is an outline of the historical developments leading up to
today's BBC Radio 2 at:
http://www.radiorewind.co.uk/radio2/2lo_page.htm

BBC Radio History
1922-1939

...six high power 'regional' medium wave transmitters; one to serve
Wales, four serving England and Northern Ireland plus one for
Scotland, each offering local opt - outs from the new National
Programme. To help fill in areas of poor reception an experimental
long wave transmitter was set up at Daventry, Northamptonshire in
1925 enabling the BBC in 1930 to broadcast the new National
Programme to the majority of the population. These transmissions
were moved to Droitwich, Worcestershire in 1934, (now used to
broadcast Radio 4).

1939-1945
The Home Service

When WWII was declared in 1939, the BBC immediately replaced all
regional medium wave programmes with a simultaneous channel called
the Home Service. This action was taken to prevent German aircraft
using localised transmissions for direction finding.

1945-1967
Light Programme

Following the end of the war, the BBC reintroduced the six pre-war
regional services, on the same transmitters and frequencies as
before, retaining the wartime name BBC Home Service. So for example
the Welsh regional station on Medium Wave was now called the Welsh
Home Service.

The long wave frequencies of the pre-war National Programme became
the BBC Light Programme which launched on Sunday, 29th July 1945.

http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/radio.html

Radio in the UK started back in the early 1920's with just one tiny
BBC radio station in Chelmsford. The BBC dominated radio until the
1960's, when the Pirates ruled the airwaves. In the early 1970's,
we saw commercial radio come onto the scenes.

I also remember the Third Programme prior to 1967 which became Radio 3, when
did that start?
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On Mon, 04 May 2009 20:16:44 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Well, I used to have a radio from that period and the glass dial had a lot
of station names on it. Don't recall seeing Light program, but from asking
relatives they spent some time listening to Athlone in Ireland apparently.
I guess there was less interference in those days!

Brian
There tended to be a lot of station names from the continent. Those
stations came in nicely after dark, as they still do.

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I also remember the Third Programme prior to 1967 which became Radio 3,
when did that start?

29 September 1946. It was closed from 10 Feb 47 to 26 Feb 47 because of a
national power shortage

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Brian Gaff wrote:
Well, I used to have a radio from that period and the glass dial had
a lot of station names on it. Don't recall seeing Light program, but from
asking relatives they spent some time listening to Athlone in
Ireland apparently. I guess there was less interference in those days!

Less interference from government certainly.

Since the BBC was mainly used for propaganda at that time, listening to a
source from a neutral country probably meant greater reliability.

On 4 May, 18:45, "David" wrote:

I know some of you are older and retired, such as Charles,
maybe you can answer me a question.
During the WW2 was there only the BBC and the Home
Service? I know the Light programme started, or maybe
restarted at the end of the war in 1945. Regards, David


I remember growing up with a Civilian Wartime Receiver
in the house

http://www.thevalvepage.com/radios/w...s/warmains.htm

It was "overtuned" so that only strong local signals
could be heard. Weak distant ("foreign") stations
just sounded as whistles. This feature does not
appear to be mentioned in the reference. The
receiver I remember looked exactly like the picture
except that it was a good deal cleaner...

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On 4 May, 18:45, "David" wrote:

I know some of you are older and retired, such as Charles,
maybe you can answer me a question.
During the WW2 was there only the BBC and the Home
Service? I know the Light programme started, or maybe
restarted at the end of the war in 1945. Regards, David


I remember growing up with a Civilian Wartime Receiver
in the house

http://www.thevalvepage.com/radios/w...s/warmains.htm

It was "overtuned" so that only strong local signals
could be heard. Weak distant ("foreign") stations
just sounded as whistles. This feature does not
appear to be mentioned in the reference. The
receiver I remember looked exactly like the picture
except that it was a good deal cleaner...

What on earth is 'overtuned'? I've never heard of this before.
'Insensitive'? Or 'broad as a barn door'? Maybe both!
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I remember growing up with a Civilian Wartime Receiver
in the house

http://www.thevalvepage.com/radios/w...s/warmains.htm

It was "overtuned" so that only strong local signals
could be heard. Weak distant ("foreign") stations
just sounded as whistles. This feature does not
appear to be mentioned in the reference. The
receiver I remember looked exactly like the picture
except that it was a good deal cleaner...


"I want one Mum"

Thanks that great info.

I have got my hands on an old Murphy and it is a 1947 one and a not quite as
old GEC with small valves.
I'm going to play my ww2 music etc from my CD walkman via an amplifier
module to its speaker to give the effect of being wartime radio.
Now I know about this set if I come across one I can really be authentic.
Also I will not be concerned if it working or not, safer not to power it up
anyway.

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Regards,
David

FREESAT HD as it is now it is a joke.

Ian Jackson wrote:

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I remember growing up with a Civilian Wartime Receiver
in the house

http://www.thevalvepage.com/radios/w...s/warmains.htm

It was "overtuned" so that only strong local signals
could be heard. Weak distant ("foreign") stations
just sounded as whistles. This feature does not
appear to be mentioned in the reference. The
receiver I remember looked exactly like the picture
except that it was a good deal cleaner...

What on earth is 'overtuned'? I've never heard of this before.
'Insensitive'? Or 'broad as a barn door'? Maybe both!

The set has a metal rectifier as detector. Maybe these have a high
threshold voltage, so weak signals would not be rectified? Just a guess.
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Dave