Radio 390 - Why The Fast(er) Demise?

19/12/2025

Just a few videos of Radio 390 back in the sixties. So what was the story for Radio 390? Well according to the usually unreliable and for certain ever controlled Wiki P it goes as follows:

Radio 390 (1965–1967) was a pirate radio station on Red Sands Fort, (near Whitstable), a former Maunsell Fort on the Red Sands sandbar in the River Thames estuary. Previously the fort had been used by Radio Invicta (c June 1964 – February 1965) and K-I-N-G Radio (March – September 1965). Neither was well-financed or successful, and KING approached Ted Allbeury, who suggested a format based on women's magazines to appeal to housewives.

Radio 390 was named after the station's wavelength, so listeners would know where to tune. The actual wavelength was 388 metres (773 kHz), but 390 was easier to remember. Like its neighbour, Radio City, Radio 390 took advantage of the fort's layout by erecting a 250-foot vertical mast on an inner tower, guyed to three of the outer towers. This, with additional elevation from the height of the towers, gave a stable and efficient antenna, better than ship-based stations, ensuring coverage of southern England with only a 10 kilowatt transmitter. For advertisers, the station claimed 35 kilowatts.

The station's easy listening format was innovative and highly popular with listeners, but criticised by Britain Radio as "Stone Age radio – a series of segmented dirges"

So, it appears on this occasion Wikipedia may have got things right. Radio 390 was both popular & described by fellow offshore station Britain Radio as 'stone age radio'.

In other words it (390) was the perfect antidote for the BBC's Light Programme, the home of Family Favorites, Housewife's Choice, a couple of soap's and of course The Midland Light Orchestra. Radio 390 managed to upgrade the BBC's stone age approach to their listeners, provide a level of respect and normality, and treat the audience as equals.

Yes! Radio 390 had hit on the idea of being less crap than the Light Prog, making it a massive threat to BBC radio in general! How dare a commercial radio station turn up and be something listeners wanted, whilst not being the work of the Devil and playing Pop Music.

So in this case the wheels of justice moved fast, very fast. Territorial Waters were (ahem) adjusted, the great unwashed were ignored and a fabulous idea was ended. Is it just me, or does that sound like the BBC & their lefty lovies nearly sixty years later?

46 Comments

Radio Vergin

20/12/2025 12:40:43 am

Does anyone remember how awful and stone age Virgin 1215/42 was

And how loonies thought some kind of Caroline deal could be made with them or Breeze or Coast AM

Thank God for Peter Moore and the Real Caroline Army of the Radio experienced

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20/12/2025 06:52:32 am

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Tony Blackburn testing the Hoovering up ships act skirting around the boards like Agb and his many names

20/12/2025 07:00:40 am

In other words it (390) was the perfect antidote for the BBC's Light Programme, the home of Family Favorites, Housewife's Choice, a couple of soap's and of course The Midland Light Orchestra. Radio 390 managed to upgrade the BBC's stone age approach to their listeners, provide a level of respect and normality, and treat the audience as equals.

Yes! Radio 390 had hit on the idea of being less crap than the Light Prog, making it a massive threat to BBC radio in general! How dare a commercial radio station turn up and be something listeners wanted, whilst not being the work of the Devil and playing Pop Music.

Was this not the original concept of Project to Bring commercial Atlanta / Caroline radio / ITA TV / to Britain

Mervyn Hagger

20/12/2025 08:01:37 pm

The original plan was to ooen up licencing of many independenct radio and tv stations for PYE to sell 'packaged' radio and tv stations. PYE did not want to run anything. ITA was merely another BBC selling its airtime with spot commercials. There were only 2 broadcasters: BBC and ITA. The program suppliers were just that.

Now when it came to the October 15, 1964 General Election it was 'game over' for PYE and the first hoax brought in Don Pierson and Radio London and the second hoax brought in SRE/BR and all the rest.

But the game was over after October 15, 1964.

PR Man

20/12/2025 07:03:49 am

like anyone in advertising knows the difference between 25 watts on DAB and 25 Kilowatts on 963 or how 9 European countries can be covered with 8 on 558!!

Mervyn Hagger

20/12/2025 10:20:58 am

The bit you left out was the claim by John Thompson of the Voice of Slough Ltd., that he started KING Radio and then he had the nerve to write to the GPO and claim that Ted Allbuery has 'stolen' in from him to start Radio 390. Thompson had already been the victim of Arnold Swanson the crook who stole from his wife to promote the hoax about Radio GBOK. But it was that link that brought in A.N. Thomas the ex-BBC engineer who was working for PYE (after retiring from the BBC), and Thomas went to work for CNBC/Veronica, then Crawford/Atlanta and finally his links brought in Jocelyn Stevens and the Radio Caroline project.

AgB

23/12/2025 11:26:04 pm

MERRY Xmas everyone (except trolls& bucket mouths)

AgB II

26/12/2025 09:31:45 am

Oh sh*t! I just condemned my own shadow with holiday greetings.

Newsweek Magazine Bulletin - The news for seriously busy DJ's

31/12/2025 06:29:58 am

Edited by board administrator December 30, 2025, 9:04 pm
Happy New Year to all who post here.

Garry Stevens

Mervyn Hagger

1/1/2026 09:21:20 am

Happy New Year to Malcolm who seems to be using a different name in order to generate activity in my direction. No one other than Malcolm would spend so much time and energy to write to 'Merv' and post on the Gary Board - which now seems to be the clone of the Dave Board with AgB writing the same stuff on both of them. Anyway, thanks for the plug but I doubt that anoraks will appreciate it.

Mervyn Hagger

1/1/2026 11:12:36 am

Well, Malcolm Smith has confirmed that he is Gary Collins as well as Peter Moore and goodness knows who else. This former grease monkey who now lives off the donations of pensioners supporting his rust bucket and inconsequential pawn created by British licence, is spending an awful lot of time in a desparate attempt to identify me personally with something that I am only a part of, and that is a history project. But what Malcolm does not seem to know is that long ago one of the Sov Cit founders (as Malcolm calls them), tried to steal from us, and we immediately reported this person to the U.S. government, with success. We also shut down Allan Weiner's nonsense radio ships, albeit after anorak rogues stole over $10,000 from us. It was Weiner who dragged the Ross Revenge into his Brooklyn court fight against the FCC, and it was Ronan O'Rahilly who failed to show up at the criminal court trial of the man who stole for O'Rahilly, the money to buy the Ross Revenge. You, Malcolm can yell and scream all you want but you represent thieves and crooks and I have no time for any of that. If you would just shut up and stop spreading the O'Rahilly lie about 6 years old Caroline Kennedy, I won't bother you. How you got the name 'Caroline' will be exposed however, and that is why I suggest you create a brand new business and drop the lie that Radio Caroline of 1964 continues. It doesn't, because it finally died in March 1968, although it legitimately ceased long before that. So, stop trying to hide behind other names Malcolm, you are Malcolm Smith and you were once a grease monkey. Now behave yourself and play nice. As for AgB, well he is just anyone's lonely lap dog looking for a master who will look after him.

Home Schooling for Malcolm

1/1/2026 12:46:19 pm

Malcolm is a dumb sort when it comes to research. Maybe he was good as a grease monkey, I don't know, because I never went to his garage. But Malcolm rattles on about telegraphy and telephony and the law.

What Malcolm does not seem to know about is what happened in 1954, which happens to be the same year that the ITA was created. But something else happened that year that was of major importance to Malcolm, but he seems to be unaware of what it was and I am not going to explain it to him here.

Malcolm also seems to have been watching too many TV reruns on YouTube of police bodycam stops in the USA. This is where dumb clucks prattle on about sovereign citizens - which is a contradiction in terminology. Sovereignty involves land and government recognized by a genuine nation. 'Sealand' is a classic example gone wild of Malcolm's interpretation. 'Sealand' is not a sovereign nation, it has no citizens (squatters, yes), and therefore the only 'rights' they have are 'rights' some other dumb clucks have dreamed up. But John Lilburne and freeborn rights are something completely different.

Malcolm, take notes and stop day dreaming about swindling pensioners. John Lilburne believed in the same premise that became the foundational documents of the USA. Freeborn rights are equal rights granted not by man, but by God.

But your TV shows are about idiots who don't believe in law (such as the US Constitution), they believe in anarchy, and that is exactly what Ronan O'Rahilly said that he believed in, and he said it on camera!

Before you can teach anyone Malcolm you need to get an education in matters other than how to steal a rust bucket from investors, which is why the USA prosecuted the Radio Caroline case in Philadelphia.

There is so much you don't know about the world outside of a car engine of old, because today, who needs grease monkeys with electric cars on the road?

Dear Malcolm aka Peter aka Gary

1/1/2026 05:27:58 pm

If you have something to say, say it here. Otherwise if you post elsewhere it will probably get deleted, unless Malcolm, Peter, Gary, you post it on your own Board which thanks to AgB is looking very similar to the Dave Board. How many of you are now left? Not many, but AgB is doing his best by posting rubbish everywhere.

The Malcolm, Peter, Gary Board with AgB

1/1/2026 05:42:40 pm

It looks like Malcolm, Peter, Gary is beginning 2026 by running scared. While he is churning out rubbish about 'Merv' it is obvious that he is actually reading what is written - even the 'fine print' - because he is quoting it! What sad people these anoraks are. Malcolm, Peter, Gary, just take down your false claims about Caroline Kennedy (a 6 years old toddler!), and get on with an honest business. I don't care what you do with your rust bucket, but stop trying to link it to Radio Caroline in 1964. Your obsessive sickness is getting the better of you (assuming you had a 'better' side, that is. LOL.) Happy New Year.

Gary Collins Does Not Exist

1/1/2026 09:43:46 pm

At some point Mervyn H must have been over the target, that's when the same individual comes along using a brand new name and writing on behalf of his owners, always defending the establishment and rubbishing those who question the official version of history.

He is also repeated by an obsessive who I just 'admin out' these day's as he has nothing constructive to say and sounds like a right boring old codger every time. So some nerves have been possibly touched and the 'grey man in a suit (or uniform)' is back in action, with his attempts to disguise his writing style as usual proving crap.

With the BBC in real trouble with President Trump right now, and the old guard in the House Of Lords (more about that soon) trying to continue to influence their pals in Congress (the old empire tail wags the dog if it can) anything that challenges the BBC legitimacy will be attacked.

If this seems or is a bit cryptic all will be published soon, it already out there on social media.

Mike (Admin)

Mervyn Hagger

2/1/2026 09:11:59 am

I liked your "over the target" phrase Mike, because I think you are must be 100% correct.

It has been my suspicion that Malcolm Smith aka Peter Moore and maybe Gary Collins, got the stolen rust bucket Ross Revenge to shut him up and all of the dying anoraks.

That's how he got the mini R.Caroline licence as well - which is tied to the BBC and a former super-secret miliary site linked to Continental Electronics in Dallas, Texas.

Whoever is writing as 'Gary Collins' is spending a LOT of time posting to me, personally, and to the Gary Board after spending a LOT of time DAILY reading each and every word on the britishbroadcastingchronolgy.com web site.

Someone is NOW very fearful - so they attack me ('Merv') as though this is a one man show. It is not.

For years the anoraks have taunted me personally to publish - when we have been publishing for decades on academic platforms.

Now, with Donald Trump talking REAL money SOMEONE has awakened with a fright and what my TEAM is now publishing has scared the sh*t out of them. They know where this is going: bye bye BBC.

This morning (unrelated in any way to me), someone from the Falkirk area has dragged up the old BBC-TV racist Black & White Minstrel Show. They stuck a picture of the LP on Facebook and it has drawn a comment from someone in Texas (no idea who that is).

But it seems that like the 6 years old Carolin myth story of 1965 which began in Falkirk, Scotland - so did the man whose name is linked to that RACIST BBC-TV show.

I previously posted that album cover on my own Facebook page and got no response. Now this other post has appeared and it is getting feedback from Texas.

Like you said Mike, WE must be "over the target".

So that WE don't muddy up the British Broadcasting Chronicle site, and because of all this feedback, WE are activating the allaboutradiocaroline.com site to cover the 'Gary Factor' and directing feeback here.

Doctor Watson

2/1/2026 08:15:24 pm

Gary Collins is the Old Codger? Am I right or am I right Mr Holmes?

To: A great Buffoon (AgB)

3/1/2026 04:13:29 pm

AgB you get more stupid by the moment. Now you are correcting Malcolm Smith aka Peter Moore aka Gary Collins, with more bunkum. Go read the latest update on allaboutradiocaroline.com

AgB

4/1/2026 02:45:04 pm

You are mistaking me for Scottg,
IAM NOT SCOTTG!
AgB .

Mike - you are on to something!

3/1/2026 04:38:17 pm

Gary Collins has now zoomed in after AgB with a statement that blows himself out of the water.

He just wrote and posted "The narrative then takes a wild leap into geopolitical fan fiction by involving Robert F. Kennedy and a "fake story" about his niece."

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear. Guess where that info came from? It came from Robin Leach and Robert F. Kennedy in their own words on recorded tape.

Which is in the hands of Mervyn Hagger and colleagues.

Guess when it was recorded?

1965.

Guess how I got a copy of it?

Not telling.

I promised not to tell, but if I did tell you, then you and all of your pals (all 4 of you), would be shocked. It's someone you know very, very well.

Is it authentic?

Oh yes.

Are you a lot of stupid little squirts?

Of course you are. You know that you are.

Was Ronan O'Rahilly a crook who did not believe in law?

Yes, he admitted to being an anorak, and we know that he was a bagman for Rachman and Nash. That was his only connection to The Scene club. One of the staff admitted this in writing - another document we have. Chris Edwards even nicked and published a bit of it.

Malcolm, stop inventing all these identities, there will soon be enough of you to start your own nation of phantom people.

I propose that you name AgB to be your Idiot-in-Chief.

Will you second this?

Malcolm & Gary & The Old Codger

3/1/2026 08:16:16 pm

Gary Collins is just another old anorak who turns up in different places with different names but never his own of course. That alone reduces his credibility to practically nothing. He might be the old codger I referred to previously, I will leave that for you to think about. He is not Malcolm, but he repeats Malc's "Ronan invented Caroline" mantra like some sort of obsessive.

Having seem plenty of printed evidence & even heard some recorded material from the 1950's and 1960's (not air checks but taped conversation) it is clear O'Rahilly was not the founder of Caroline & the Caroline Kennedy story is genuinely fake.

Mervyn has shared much with me, he also knows I have tremendous respect for Chris Edwards (who has had a tough few years of late) of OEM fame. There has been lazy journalism by (or none in the case of one) some in a hurry to put out a book in the past, which has added to the confusion with repeated myths taken as fact.

I have no axe to grind with anoraks, just stupid or closed minded people. Let's face it, we were duped as younger people into thinking Ronan was some sort of free radio hero, he wasn't. In terms of manipulating and using others, he grew into somebody very adept, his charm, well managed 'rebel against the British establishment' image and ability to take other folks hard work as his own, sadly were often present. Without stealing Mervyn's research (like the pudding bowl, hair by Lego Rustler) I might just put together what I know as an article on here one day.

Mike - Admin

AgB

4/1/2026 09:08:08 pm

Yet again you are confusing me with Scottg .
IAM NOT! SCOTTG..
AgB.

King Arthur of the Round Table

3/1/2026 05:21:52 pm

No, and I also believe in cardboard fairies at the bottom of Wicki Fraud Cottage Garden

Mervyn Hagger

3/1/2026 10:05:08 pm

Mike, I have no objections to anything you want to write based on anything you now know.

This is a story of earthquake proportions and it is in the interests of many people, not just some anoraks, to keep the lid on.

As a matter of fact, the person who gave me the tape about Kennedy is a very well known anorak. I walk a fine line on my friendship with this person and I have a lot of respect for this person. (Don't want to identify gender.) It's not Chris Edwards.

However, without a partnership with Chris Edwards the major breakthrough could not have been achieved because of location. He was sort of more on the spot than me. But the problem arose with confirming that Stanley was the creator of Caroline, and if he was the creator then clearly Crawford, O'Rahilly and Stevens were not. This presented Chris with a big problem because OEM was built on a readership by anoraks.

That led to another brickwall until I followed the "die cast logo" reference in 'Radio Man' and the original unadulterated text that Chris Edwards uncovered. This linked Pye to LTV and my research in Fort Worth (where I lived), took me back to WBAP in 1922, and then to XERF and our Radio London broadcasts with Ben Toney and Don Pierson. That linked to the founding of Continental Electronics and the meeting in 1935 with Captain Plugge and help to build his new souped-up Radio Normandie of 1938 that only lasted a few months.

Then more and more stuff began to emerge about Bush House and pre-WWII commercial radio publishing.

More research led to more links through the 50s via Radio Yorkshire and Manx Radio. Then came C.O. Stanley and he was followed in late 1964 by the dots that linked Jack Spector to Morris Levy in 'Broadcast' magazine.

Then there is the strange tale of Ian Cowper Ross and his links to both aristocracy, the Beatles and the 1990 BBC-TV fake documentary. That opened the floodgates to people like Rusling who knew better but cashed in on the bogus story.

However, what has now emerged is the much, much bigger story about the fake beginnings of the BBC. That is going to be the cause of the explosion. Not Radio Caroline or Malcolm Smith and his trivial enterprise which I believe was handed to him to shut him up.

What Malcolm Smith writes about me having contact with him years ago is true.

That began when Chris England began texting me and phoning me in Texas about the ownership of the Ross Revenge.

At the time I did not know that in 1954 Charles Orr Stanley had tangled with the GPO over telegraphy v telephony. I did not know that Stanley's lawyer had discovered that NO law had been passed regarding Wireless telephony, but he did discover that the Post Office had been collecting MILLIONS of Pounds at the time for a licence that did not exist under British law. This story got coverage in the American, but not British press. Parliament then passed an ex post facto law so that it did not have to refund MILLIONS of Pounds.

Marconi was an Italian fascist who pioneered wireless telegraphy for the Navy. He was not the creator of wireless telephony and carrier wave broadcasting.

The more I dug into all of this the more that I discovered that the real history of British broadcasting as told is one big fat pack of LIES.

Now that Donald Trump has come to the party armed with BILLIONS of dollars because he is pissed-off at the BBC, the big hope is that by some fluke, his well paid lawyers will get to see the hard evidence that we have uncovered.

If that happens then its going to be goodbye BBC.

I am 82 and going on 83 - but I am in very good health. Eric and Genie are more than 10 years younger and a new recruit is in his late 20s. But everything we do is self-funded and so if I kick the bucket before this sh*t hits the fan, then it may just die.

On the other hand, if it does get into the hands of the right people this story should be worth millions of Pounds.

So if you want to help push out this boat in your own way, have at it Mike. All I ask is that unlike the stab-in-the-back Pudding-Bowl Man, you stick to the truth and nothing but the truth, warts and all.

A suggestion

6/1/2026 12:08:04 pm

Donald Trump and/or his lawyers will not see your hard evidence. You need to send it to them. I doubt they are aware of your web pages.

Why are you not putting your story in front of the right people? It won't get into anyone's hands if you don't promote it to them.

Whilst your efforts are well intentioned, I very much doubt that you have an audience of any size, much less anyone of influence. Get on the radio, get on TV, write letters, emails, send messages.

As you say. as things stand, all your work will die with you. You can write and rewrite your pages as much as you like, but it is of no consequence if only a niche minority know about them.

I KNOW

3/1/2026 09:47:24 pm

Posted by Scottg on January 3, 2026, 2:01 am, in reply to "Re: BBC"
Very ocasionally MH can write sence. His problem is diversions from the main subject. Over the past 10 years or so the promises of a book appearing are filled with excuses and explanations for non completion. It is irrelevant if you are (or are not) gifted to be an academic. I do not believe in academic snobbery. Peter Moore's history of the formation of Radio Caroline is inaccurate. To say one person and his friends co-ordinated everything is ludicrous. Every offshore radio station from Radio Mercur to SRE/Britain Radio had multiple experienced people involved. From the original Radio Mercur blueprint how to do it, to the Radio Caroline extreme version (to shield investors identities) and have a figurehead. The investors money which was gathered in the UK, went to an offshore company, which distributed the money to other offshore companies to buy and register the boat, buy the transmitters, aerial, studio equipment and generators. The final offshore company handled the advertising receipts and payments for the running costs. Everything could be done from the UK or Eire via telex. The most well known (and last to be formed) is Planet Productions Ltd. It was just an agency for advertising and productions of programmes. Ronan O'rahilly was in charge of the programming side,publicity, souvenirs and the Caroline Club, with his friends. Jocelyn Stevens appointed Michael Parkin to head sales. The office administration at 6 Chesterfield Gardens up to April 1965 was shambolic until Barry Ainley took over as General Manager. It is now time to eliminate the remainder of the inaccuracies (mainly circulating from the early 1990's. There are more truths (especially in interviews and articles) pre 1975. I have been a Radio Caroline listener for decades and congratulate everyone for still keeping it on the air today in its various formats. Scottg .

Mervyn Hagger

4/1/2026 06:39:34 pm

The books exist.

Some are in part-form.

Some are in monograph form.

But to you unless they are in picture book format with a glossy cover showing a ship in water, they don't exist.

You spend all this time writing rubbish which demonstrates that you have never studied this subject, never investigated anything and still make judgmental calls. That's why I call you stupid. You never learn, you don't want to learn.

Rusling told me that he had no time to learn and so he stole from me and twisted it to fit in his Ronan rubbish.

What I have learned from you SgB is that not only is the world filled with crooks and sex fiends but it is also filled with plain stupid people - like you.

You have one life to live and when you are dead no one will care. You won't have contributed anything, good or bad to life on this Planet. It's not too late for you to wake up but from your current post I doubt that you ever will.

Learning begins by asking questions, but you already know everything so what is the point? You already know all the answers.

But I have a question: what is wrong with your brain?

Did you swallow a lot of lead paint when you were younger?

Or were just born stupid due to a biological defect?

Mervyn Hagger re: Malcolm Smith and wireless telephony law

5/1/2026 09:10:18 am

Because the lazy anoraks are not taking time to read the very detailed story on the 'allaboutradiocaroline.co.uk' web page, and because I have confirmed that what Malcolm Smith has been prattling on about concerning my contact with him years ago regarding Radio Caroline on the Ross Revenge and the UK licencing law concerning wireless telephony, I need to add a correction and some more details to my earlier comments.

I wrote, on this same page, that the story about a failure of the UK Crown to pass a licencing law concerning wireless telephony had not been covered in the UK press, but only in the USA newspapers. It was covered in the UK, but not as extensively as in the USA. Nor was its actual financial impact covered to the extent that it was in the USA. Here we are talking about millions of Pounds.

Many years later in the 1990s, Chris England and his pal John Burch who published the 'Radio Caroline Movement Bulletin' (digest), began faxing and phoning me to discover who owned the Ross Revenge. This is because I already had Panamanian government contacts in both the USA and Panama. Chris England had plans to seize the shio after it was abandoned for a time.

I discovered that the Richards Butler ship certificate was a fake and that the Panama 'Consulate' in Houston that issued it was a fake run by some women providing fake documents for oil tankers! Burch brought this to the attention of O'Rahilly and he demanded to know who I was.

About the same time or a little later, I got in touch with Malcolm Smith at his garage, and told him that Marconi was the pioneer of wireless telegraphy, and not wireless telephony. By sleight of hand, the GPO which had control of all point to point communications by telegraphy, then made the gigantic leap to wireless telephony - not as a means of person to person communication via a telephone, but to broadcast to anyone anywhere with a microphone attached to a transmitter.

Why Charles Orr Stanley of Pye did not blow up the GPO/BBC in 1952-54 with his discovery I can only guess. He did not want to lose PYE MOD and BBC/ITA contracts. Stanley could have destroyed the BBC and ITA. But he did not.

However, it did send the Crown, GPO, House of Lords and House of Commons into a blind panic. Millions of Pounds would have to be refunded for all ot those broadcasting licences issued without the backing of law. The Acts of 1904 and 1948 concerned Wireless Telegraphy with an oblique reading of wireless telephony tacked on.

Malcolm Smith took this to his solicitor, who, like most lazy bums, did no research and told Malcolm Smith that I was nuts. So ever since then Malcolm Smith has been parroting the same line because he too is a lazy bum, even if he was a good grease monkey.

I explained all of this because some other lazy bum like AgB is likely to follow me clues and find the British newspaper articles I am referring to.

So how did the Crown and its GPO avoid having to refund millions of Pounds? The passed an ex post facto law - which is illegal in the USA under its written Constitution. But since the GPO was founded in 1660 as a censorship arm of the new monarchy, it could do as it pleased.

And it did.

That is the true story behind the wireless telephony (and television) licence!

As for the GPO Post Office Scandal, well the GPO has always been an arm of dictatorship called the Crown.

So Malcolm is telling the truth, but not the whole truth.

Mervyn Hagger GPO Wireless Scandal

5/1/2026 09:13:53 am

See: The Daily Telegraph
Fri, Nov 12, 1954 ·Page 23

RADIO LICENCE DOUBT
NEW LAW PLANNED

Mervyn Hagger

5/1/2026 09:28:20 am

We will be extending the britishbroadcastingchronology.com overview into a second page to show in detail the discovery made by Charles Orr Stanley concerning the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1949 (originated in 1948 and referenced back to 1904).

Our interest which differed from Stanley's original interest, is in the huge jump from person-to-person communications to everyone, everywhere in the UK and known as 'broadcasting'. Months before the creation of the BBC, the GPO began demanding that listeners obtained receiving licences. This is the bedrock of TV Licencing today. It is based on censorship going all the way back to 1660 and the puppet king (Charles II), of General George Monck.

maracas crackers

5/1/2026 04:29:10 pm

veneswala's a very hot country right now

keep on klicking scott

we need your lube oil

Mervyn Hagger with a word or two about the ex post facto law

6/1/2026 08:13:55 am

The U.S. Constitution forbids the creation of law after the fact, and over the years (since 1789), this has been interpreted by U.S. courts to mean criminal laws with punishments attached.

Not civil law.

The UK does not have a written constitution, and the foundation of the GPO goes back to the death of the united republic in 1660 when it did have a written constitution for a brief time.

In 1954 when the Wireless Telegraphy Act was applied to radio telephones and radio broadcasting, it meant that anyone who had been PUNISHED under that law as a 'pirate', had been convicted illegally. In other words, there was no law to make them 'pirates' because they could not violate a law which did not exist.

So where this gets really interesting is in the idea that anyone convicted of wireless 'piracy' (sending or receiving), had been wrongfully punished.

By passing an ex post facto law, the GPO not only got to keep millions of Pounds in licence fees, but it also meant that any convicted 'pirate' was made guilty under a law that did not exist before one was created expost facto. That is, until one was passed in 1954.

So, were there any wrongful convictions ex post facto, and what were the wrongful punishments imposed?

That is going to be not as difficult to discover as it sounds, because the GPO liked to make examples of 'pirates' in the press to put fear into other people from behaving the same way.

By jeering at me years ago and again today, Malcolm Smith is just proving that he is nothing more than a stupid grease monkey conning a lot of aging anoraks out of their pension money to pay for his rust bucket which was stolen from U.S. investors.

Heee's back

8/1/2026 05:57:29 pm

Obviiously if Gary Collins is not Malcolm Smith who has a vested interest in which is being posted on the Compendium, it is someone close to him. No one else, using the same style would spend so much time reading and responding to text that the writer thinks is rubbish. If that is his conclusion, then why bother to respnd to it? But what shows through is someone banging a drum with something to lose. So he denies everything because he is scared. But scared of what? Malcolm has his rust bucket and tin pot licence to lose, and Malcolm has gone silent but Gary using the same style has taken over. It sure looks like Malcolm or his lap dog.

Gary Collins

9/1/2026 02:42:13 pm

It isn't.

Gary Collins says "pay your TV licence - it's legal!

8/1/2026 06:04:37 pm

Well now, if ever there was a give away as to which side Malcolm Smith is on, his shadow says you need to pay your TV licence fee". Malcolm has his tin pot station courtesy of the BBC and the Crown that gave him a licence. If ever there was anyone more anti-pirate or free radio, it is Malcom Smith and his lap dog or aka Gary Collins.

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10/1/2026 08:54:35 pm

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Mervyn

11/1/2026 09:04:12 am

Something weird is happening on the 'original Gary' Board. After the 'new Gary' posted slabs of stuff denouncing the 'Wireless Telephony Act 1904' - in agreement with what I wrote.

I claimed that it did not exist - which is what Gary Two is claiming. Go figure that one!

Not only that, but on the original Gary Board a comment by 'Freddie' (Gary One?), whose advice is to ignore me, has now been deleted..

But Gary Two is spending all his time denouncing something that I never claimed, but exposed as a hoax. So while I was mulling that over, I suddenly realized that Malcolm Smith had no access to the proof that Ronan O'Rahilly made up the story about a child named Caroline Kennedy!

I don't know why I did not think of this earlier, but my own source was a well known anorak, an honest anorak, who happens to be my friend.I need to distinguish good anoraks from bad anoraks.

Some considerable time ago this good anorak sent me something that came out of a cardboard box which had been in Ronan's London flat.

No one had bothered with this item which was on reel-to-reel tape, until my friend digitalized it, and then he realized that what I was reporting from American newspaper sources, was also the subject and content matter of that tape.

So he sent it to me!

I won't mention my source because I don't want to drag him into the middle of the 'Rust Bucket and Tin Pot Licence' lunacy.

But what this means is that Malcolm Smith has either never heard about this tape, let alone not heard what is on it, or he is more devious and even less honest than I thought. But upon reflectiion, I think that Malcolm is just a former grease monkey out of his depth.

He has never heard the evidence!

He may not know that it exists.

Naturally Malcolm still plasters the Caroline Kennedy hoax on his 'Tin Pot' site, as though it is true.

Malcolm is absolutely correct when he says that I contacted him years ago (after the John Burch / Chris England activity.) My contat with Malcolm was about the subject of telegraphy v. telephony. Back then Malcolm just mocked, while I looked for evidence, which I found.

Now Gary Number Two is attacking me for just writing the words 'Wireless Telephony Act 1904', when I am merely stating that it did not exist, which is what I am also claiming.

So how does the long-winded rant by Gary Two differ from what I am claiming?

However, it is the bedrock of the Malcolm Smith rant that he keeps refering to.

In other words you and Malcolm are writing the same thing, which just so happens to be what I am also writing.

Duh?

You two sound like AgB who thinks he is some sort of school teacher grading exam papers, but in reality this self-appointed examiner does not understand any ot this, or even what Gary Two and Malcolm are going on about.

They are saying what I am saying.

But, in fairness to Malcolm, I thought I had better confirm that he seems to be unaware of a bedrock piece of hard evidence regarding the true story behind the Caroline Kennedy hoax.

Tearman Tehranian Square

11/1/2026 09:13:32 pm

Some big shit going down over there

FOR FUCK SAKE!

13/1/2026 05:56:50 pm

FOR THE LAST TIME!!!
"MERVYN I AM NOT! !
SCOTT G !"
AgB .

FASAQ Frequently asked stupid anorak questions

15/1/2026 12:27:41 am

Posted by NeptuneUser icon on 14/1/2026, 0:16:48, in reply to "Re: Caroline - A New Musical tours East Anglia"
Not worth starting a new thread, but there are interesting ship registration issues raised with the arrival of the seized oil tanker in the Moray Firth. The UK government says it is still the 'Bella 1' and does not recognise its change of name and adoption of the Russian flag.

Not on Your Nelly

16/1/2026 02:22:59 am

It is obviously the Boxoftricks and Jonny Lewis owns Bellatrix

Scott G

13/1/2026 07:21:24 pm

Sorry, made a mistake. I am not Mervyn, I am AgB.

I am not AgB

16/1/2026 11:28:24 am

I don't know who I am even though I call myself AgB and other names. But then other people also call me by other names. Just call me All Gary Banter. Hey, that's AgB. Maybe I am Scott G.

Garry Davis

16/1/2026 02:56:37 am

I know how you feel Sctogg G. I dose too every day

James McGregor

16/1/2026 02:58:59 am

Megaton by the way that idiot is talking

TV LICENSING AND MALCOLM SMITH

17/1/2026 04:34:00 pm

Years ago, Malcolm Smith was advised by Mervyn Hagger about the orgins, meaning and wording of the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1904.

In 1954 (50 years later!), Sir Hartley Shawcross brought a lawsuit against the GPO for illegally collecting wireless licence money. He did so behalf of a Colchester haulage company and Charles Orr Stanley of PYE.

In 1954 PYE (via its proxy) won that case.

The American press went wild because it meant that millions in licence fees collected for wireless telephony (radio broadcasting) fees would have to be refunded. So Parliament passed a specific ultra vires law ex post facto so that they would not have to give the money back,

But guess what?

They never passed a law relating to Wireless Telephony (radio broadcasting). This is what Mervyn Hagger tried to tell Malcolm Smith, except that Mervyn Hagger did not know about the 1954 court case at the Old Bailey.

Instead of people protesting the TV licence fee, someone should be filing a new suit against the Crown and its underlings like Ofcom, TV Licencing, etc to say "SHOW ME THE LAW".

That law does not exist. They all go back to 1904 and the Wireless Telegraphy Act - not the Wireless Telephony Act.

Don't believe me?

Check out that 1954 case for yourself.

The GPO LOST.

Anoraks listen to lies spun by O'Rahilly and twaddle spun by dead dj Johnnie Walker.

Do your homework. Tell Smith to stop jeering and start researching.

HAGGER IS 100% CORRECT, BUT SMITH IS A CON MAN LIKE RUSLING.

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