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Pirate ships return to the shortwaves

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what the Imaginary Stations crew are putting out into the Ionosphere next week. We love the Pirate Radio ships here at Imaginary Stations, so we have a tribute to them and to great lakes everywhere.

We have two shows in the Great Lakes Pirate Radio Ships series, the first via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 6th December 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 7th December 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and 2200 UTC on 3975 kHz.

We’re celebrating the spirit and sound of those old-time offshore stations, bringing the excitement of radio from the legendary Great Lakes straight to your shortwave receiver. Expect all sorts of tunes about large expanses of water, ships, the dropping of boat anchors and other nautical radio references. Tune in and enjoy!

We have the second instalment on Wednesday 10th December 2025 at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI. Expect a different show in the same vein. Tune in and turn on.

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 flying mystery on shortwave

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what Imaginary Stations crew are putting out into the shortwaves next week. We’ve another “Guess what the theme is” with the Mystery Mix Radio show (WMMR) via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 29th November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 30th November 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and 2200 on 3975 kHz.

As usual, it’s a show of an unknown theme that you the listener, will have to guess what it is. There’ll be a special e-QSL for the lucky winner, and no, we will not give any clues away (or is that a double bluff and we have given away a vital clue?) Tune in and have some fun guessing on shortwave.

On Wednesday 3rd December 2025 at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI we bring you WFCR, the one and only Flying Carpet Radio. The show is an exotic journey through the skies on a flying carpet made from an assortment of carpet tiles and bits of (thrown out for the binman), old floor matting. It may not look like the best looking travelling device, but it doesn’t half work. So expect all sorts of exotic and worldly sounds, underlaid with the warmest vibes as ever.

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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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X-rays and comedy on shortwave

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what Imaginary Stations crew are putting out on air next week. We’ve got a comedy special called CMDY via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 23rd November 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and 2200 on 3975 kHz.

There’s stuff to hopefully make you laugh and cheer you up over the hour. Tune in and have a bit of a titter via the shortwaves!

On Wednesday 26th November 2025 at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI we bring you X-Raydio. The show will explore audio from unusual musical formats and features a piece on Bone Music by Stephen Coates from The Real Tuesday Weld (who hosts a great radio show called The Bureau of Lost Culture on Soho Radio, London) and a flexi disc mix by Shane Quentin (from the excellent The Garden of the Earthly Delights show on CRMK). Tune in your shortwave radio (or an online SDR) to X-Raydio for something a little bit different for your airwaves!

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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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Rewinding time with a 2HB

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what Imaginary Stations crew are putting on air next week. There’ll be a tribute to the humble tape cassette called KSET via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 15th November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 16th November 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and 2200 on 3975 kHz.

Tune in and enjoy an hour’s transmission of fine tunes released on cassette format that’ll fit on a C60. There’s even a little gap halfway through the show where you can turn the tape over. If you love tape you’ll love KSET.

On Wednesday 19th November 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we bring you WSTL featuring tunes of a whistling nature. They’ll be all sorts of whistling demonstrations too with dog whistles, whistling kettles, referee’s whistles and lots more. Just put your lips together and WSTL.

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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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More of those magic numbers

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what Imaginary Stations crew are putting on air next week. There’ll be another telephone tribute via shortwaveradio.de called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 3 on Saturday 8th November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 9th November 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and 2200 on 3975 kHz.

They’ll be more telephone related tunes and features; we’ll be reviving the dial a disc tradition and if all goes well will have live operators on air ready to connect you to the numbers you want. So, get that headset jammed right up to your ear and tune in!

On Wednesday 12th November 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we bring you Skybird Radio International featuring tunes from all over this world of ours. There’ll be lots of worldwide vibes via those shortwaves!

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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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We love you telephone thing, listening in…

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s what Imaginary Stations crew will sending up into the atmosphere next week. There’ll be another telephone tribute via shortwaveradio.de called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 2 on Saturday 1st November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at 1000/1400/2200 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz.

Expect all sort of phone related tunes, an interview with a telephone answering machine, a report about the furthest tin can telephone call ever, dialing tones from all around the world and the all-time top 10 of missed calls, all subject to availability of course and if there’s any snow on those telegraph wires.

Fab fact: By the way do you know why the telephone is sometimes known as “The blower”? Early telephone handsets and local exchange apparatus used to produce audible “blowing” noises (clicks and hums and the suction-like sound of magneto generators). Wonderful! 

Get connected and tune in for more telegraph and telephone madness!

On Wednesday 5th November 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we bring you another KBIN. The show is some recycled radio including mixes from some of our Imaginary Stations favourite shows so tune in and catch yourself another great value for money transmission.

More on Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 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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Dial S for Shortwave

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Greetings all SWLing Post community, here’s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be sending up to the ionosphere this week. On Saturday 25th October 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 26th October 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz, we’ll be bringing you a telephone tribute via the shortwaves called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 

There will be lots of phone related tunes, a shortwave first in a live on-air attempt of trying to break the world record of ripping two telephone directories at the same time and an interview with someone who used to say “thank you” to the speaking clock (*subject to availability and if our phone lines are working). Tune in and join us in a celebration of the “dog and bone” (as it’s known in cockney rhythming slang).

On Wednesday 29th October 2025 at 0200 UTC via WRMI  we bring you another Ancient Analogue Archive.  This is the show where we dig deep into forgotten music on archive.org). Expect all sorts of everything (and more).

More on Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 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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