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Get a (vertical and horizontal) hold of yourself

Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be broadcasting via those airwaves this week. On Saturday 18th October 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 19th October 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz. We will be bringing you a visual shortwave special called Test Cards on Radio.

This show is a must for fans of test cards and TV trade test transmissions alike and will feature all kinds of frequency tones for screen calibration purposes and test card related music from around the world. If you love those test cards, you’ll love this show.

On Wednesday 22nd October 2025 at 0200 UTC via WRMI we have a different episode of Testcards on Radio. We’re talking more test card musical classics and test tones for screen calibration fans and rooftop antenna adjusters. Tune in and enjoy. More on the theme below.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Mysterious radio signals

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be getting up to via those shortwaves this week on Saturday 11th October 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 12th October 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz.

We can’t tell you anything about the theme of this show, but we can say it will be transmitted by Shortwave Gold. Listeners are encouraged to contact us and let us know what they think the theme is by tuning in and making a link with the tunes played and there will be a special e-QSL for the winner. Full details of how to contact us will be contained in the broadcast. Tune in and see if you can guess the theme.

On Wednesday 15th October 2025 at 0200 UTC via WRMI we have an episode of Radio Ace. It’ll be full of everything radio related, and will there be any appearance from Flash Frisbone this time? Does he still exist? Has he changed his name? Or has he left the radio altogether and become a car mechanic? You’ll only know if you tune into Radio Ace.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Another trip forwards, sideways and backwards in (shortwave) time

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be broadcasting via those shortwaves this week on Saturday 4th October 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 5th October 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz.

It’ll be another trip in time travelling again (via the transmitters at Shortwave Gold) with KTAB – Time Anomaly Broadcasting (the second edition). They’ll be all sorts of great tunes from yesteryear so expect more snap, crackle and pop and even more scratchy 78rpm records and the odd Edison cylinder thrown in for good measure. So step forwards, sideways and backwards in time via that shortwave dial this weekend.

On Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 0200 UTC via WRMI we have an episode of the Ancient Analogue Archive (where we dig deep into the forgotten music on archive.org). So more interesting musical business over the airwaves from Imaginary Stations.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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A trip via KTAB to Peru

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will bring via those shortwaves this week on Saturday 27th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 28th September 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz.

It’ll be a trip back in time (via the transmitters at Shortwave Gold) with a show called KTAB – Time Anomaly Broadcasting which will be broadcast in pure mono complete with the ionosphere joining in with fading and such-like, to give you that authentic old time radio feel you don’t get on today’s shortwave radio shows. They’ll be all sorts of great tunes from many years back so expect some snap, crackle and pop and the sound of the gramophone being wound up before that next 78rpm record gets started. Step back in time via the shortwave dial.

On Wednesday 1st October 2025 at 0200 UTC via WRMI we have an episode of Skybird Radio International – The Peruvian Edition. Expect some wonderful music in a true South American style. It’s well worth tuning in for!

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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An international school of thought

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s the Imaginary Stations shortwave schedule for this week. On Saturday 20th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 21st September 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold) we bring you the next module of Skybird School of the Air.

As with last week’s lesson (which is online here if you missed the class) the subject of the show is all things educational. We will be starting where we left off last time as we had a lot more material to go into the first lesson, but we had problems with the overhead projector and the fire alarm went off unexpectedly. So rough books at the ready and no latecomers please (unless you have a good excuse).

On Wednesday 24th September 2025 via WRMI we have an episode of Skybird Radio International. Expect tunes from all around this globe of ours and all genres too. No passport, visa papers or over packed suitcases needed for this transmission. You will be travelling via the ionosphere.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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There’s a popular school of shortwave thought…

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations have a couple of great programmes this week over those short waves. The first is on Saturday 13th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 14th September 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold) we bring you the first in the programmes called Skybird School of the Air.

The programme is aptly educational themed especially as the schools are back so do have that notepad at the ready as you don’t want to miss anything as there will be a multiple-choice quiz at the end of transmission*.

It’s all good natured though and there won’t be any weekend detentions if you get the odd answer wrong. The only qualification you need to listen to the transmission is to own a shortwave radio or access to an online SDR. If all goes well we will have a local school brass band in the studio for a rollicking version of “Schools Out” and a first year college student choir entertaining us with a song about the importance of algebra and how fun it can be*. Tune in and be prepared to learn something.

* All subject to availability of course.

On Wednesday 17th September 2025 via WRMI we have another Radio Ace episode. Thanks to all the listeners who emailed us wanting to hear the show return to the airwaves and keep them ears open to catch if the great DJ Flash Frisbone will appear or not.

For more information on all our shows, please write to us at [email protected] and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Unwind with your (shortwave) KSET Pet

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Do you remember the C60, C90 and C120? We at Imaginary Stations do!

On Saturday 6th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 7th September 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold) we bring you the sounds of KSET, a tribute to the humble cassette tape.

Get your pen/pencil at the ready to rewind music of the highest (tape recorded) order and experience Dolby NR over the shortwaves for the first time (*subject to availability). Tune in and enjoy a C60 transmission of tunes released on cassette tapes and more. Remember to remove the small plastic record protection tabs located at the top of the cassette shell if you want to keep the recordng forever.