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Destination Earth

Good day all SWLing Post readers from us here at Imaginary Stations. Here’s our transmission schedule for the forthcoming week. The first programme is a return of the onshore/offshore pirate radio sound of Skybird Radio International. It goes out on Saturday 3rd May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then repeated on Sunday 4th May 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz via Shortwave Gold.

Take a shortwave flight around the globe and treat yourself to various music genres from all points around this spinning ball we call Earth that orbits around the sun at a speed of over 67,000 miles per hour. Tickets are not needed; there’s no booking of a taxi to the airport nor any room reservations to be completed via a form on the internet. All you do is tune your shortwave set in at the allotted time to enjoy all sorts of worldwide sounds.

We’ve another transmission on Wednesday 7th May 2025 via WRMI at our new time of 0200 UTC. It’s Skybird Radio International again but a completely different show chosen from our archives. Expect some top-quality sounds from around the globe.

More on the Skybird Radio International here:

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

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More atmospheric phenomena predictions on shortwave

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Hi to all the SWLing community worldwide. Imaginary Stations have a couple of programmes on the shortwaves this week for your listening pleasure. The first is on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then repeated on Sunday 27th April 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz via Shortwave Gold.

It’s another episode of The Weather Channel where we bring you “All weather, all the time”. Expect an avalanche of tunes that feature mentions of atmospheric phenomena all the way from Isobars to Icicles, some classics of a high- and low-pressure nature and some heavy “Weather rock” to play your air barometer to. Tune in and enjoy!

Recently we found some bad news on the internet where it mentioned that “TV test cards are now only rarely seen outside of television studios, post-production, and distribution facilities. They are no longer intended to assist viewers in calibration of television sets”.

That made us feel very sad here at Imaginary Stations, so on Wednesday 30th April 2025 at our new time of 0200 UTC via WRMI we bring you another episode of Test Cards on Radio. We want to bring back the good times where it was all about screen calibration, test tones and adjusting that TV antenna on the roof with a bit of the good old “left a bit, right a bit” technique.

Tune into a golden time when the standard resolution was 525 and 625 lines and bring back some vertical and horizontal hold back into your life.

Whatever the weather

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Hi to all of the SWLing community worldwide. Imaginary Stations are at it again transmitting over those airwaves this week with a couple of programmes for your listening pleasure. The first is on Saturday 19th April 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and on Sunday 20th April 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz.

The programme (weather permitting of course), features the joys of meteorology. We have all our weather stations at the ready for our transmission that will bring you tunes about the weather, a bit of sunshine and rain and other atmospheric phenomena. So have your weathervane wired up as your antenna and keep a look out for strange cloud formations. If you love the weather, you’ll love The Weather Channel.

On Wednesday 23rd April 2025 at our new time of 0200 UTC via WRMI we hoist the sails on the pirate ship MV Skybird again and bring you another audio voyage in the Free Radio Skybird series. Tune in and enjoy some “Music, speech and atmospheric effects”.

More keeping on from Radio Skybird and Radio Ace

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Greetings to all the SWLing community, hope things are well, wherever you are. This week coming, Imaginary Stations hoist the sails on the pirate ship Skybird again and brings you another audio voyage in the Free Radio Skybird series and it’s the third and final planned broadcast of the station this year.

Tune in on Saturday 22nd March 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 23rd March 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz. As with last week’s show, expect some great tunes, onshore and offshore classics and lots of interesting bits and pieces as usual.

On Wednesday 26th March 2025 at the new time of 0200 UTC via WRMI we bring you possibly what could be the finale of Radio Ace. Tune in for what may be the last time we hear from the great DJ Flash Frisbone. It may have a sad or a happy ending but Flash will be missed, tune in and find out what actually happens.

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

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Onshore and offshore, Radio Skybird keeps on keeping on

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Greetings to all SWLing community. This week in the world of shortwave entertainment, Imaginary Stations bring you more eclectic programming. As part of the 15th year anniversary series we have a transmission of Free Radio Skybird 2. Tune in on Saturday 15th March 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 16th March 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz.

As with last week’s show, expect more tunes from the onshore and offshore genre, a mini-feature on the musician Jim Sullivan and lots more interesting stuff during the hour that’s beamed to Europe via Shortwave Gold. Turn on (the shortwave radio) and tune in.

On Wednesday 19th March 2025 at the new time of 0200 UTC via WRMI we bring you another episode of the excellent Shortwave Music Library by DJ Frederick. A show well worth tuning into if you the like all sorts musicwise.

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

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Onshore and offshore sounds are all around us

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Good day all SWLing community, we’re letting you know what we’ll be sending out across those airwaves this week. The first is a return of all things esoteric when it come to your listening pleasure with Free Radio Skybird. Tune in on Saturday 8th March 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 9th March 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz brought to you via the transmitters of Shortwave Gold

Expect some onshore, offshore and all sorts of sounds from the sky (bird). Tune in for your audio treat.

On Wednesday 12th March 2025 at the new time of 0200 UTC via WRMI we bring you more of Radio Ace. Expect more of that DJ Flash Frisbone fellow and all things radio. Enjoy!

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

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Beatles, Bigfoot and Skybird

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Good day all SWLing Post community! FastRadioBurst 23 here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your listening pleasure.

On Saturday 8th February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 9th February 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via Shortwave Gold we’ll be bringing you Beatles to Bigfoot, a show with the songs of Lennon/McCartney covered in a way you’ve never heard before, beatles soundalikes, plus UFOs, flying saucers and if all goes well a Yeti Choir (*subject to availability and time constraints). It’s a odd mixture but a very nice odd mixture.

On Wednesday 12th February 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we bring you a special archive edition of Free Radio Skybird. Fly Skybird fly!

Also we need your help again to cover our production and transmission costs like we did in 2024. Even if you can only spare a couple of dollars it still helps bring our shows to the shortwaves. Heartfelt thanks from all of the Imaginary Stations crew goes out all the folks who have sent us generous donations in the past!