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There’s a popular school of shortwave thought…

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 imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Flash Frisbone surfing on shortwave

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Greetings to all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations have a couple of great programmes coming your way this weekend via the shortwave spectrum.

We’ve got another transmission of SURF (this time SURF 5) on Saturday 16th August 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 17th August 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). More surfing classics to listen to while on your board and riding those (short) waves.

We’ve got another edition of Radio Ace on Wednesday 20th August 2025 at 0200 hrs UTC via WRMI. It will be anither interesting programme and who knows we may even hear from Flash Frisbone. Tune in and find out.

The Imaginary Stations crew produces eclectic programs for shortwave and other media. We need your financial help to cover our production and transmission costs and keep us on the airwaves for a long time to come. More below:

For more information on all our shows, please write to imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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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 imaginarystations@gmail.com 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 imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Whistling on the shortwaves

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Do you enjoy whistling while you’re at work? We at Imaginary Stations do too and our next programme is the combo show called WSTL—WORK, brought to you by the powers of shortwave radio via Shortwave Gold. The show goes out on Saturday 22nd February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 23rd February 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz.

Expect lots of whistling tunes to keep you going through those shifts at work, ones to keep the Robin in your garden amused if you have the radio on while maintaining the flower beds and songs to make you feel like the wandering whistler (if you’re tuned in whilst on a treadmill). And as we have just read, “People whistle to communicate feelings which cannot be readily expressed in words.” Tune in and receive those (shortwave) feelings.

We also have another episode of Radio Ace featuring the fantastic adventures of the ground/rule breaking DJ Flash Frisbone alongside all sorts of interesting stuff on Wednesday 26th February 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI. Tune in as Radio is Ace!

Also we need your help again to cover our production and transmission costs. Even if you can only spare a couple of dollars it still helps to bring our shows to the shortwaves. So please donate to paypal.me/DJFrederick. A heartfelt thanks from all at Imaginary Stations goes out to all the folks who have sent us generous donations in the past!

For more information on all our shows, please write to imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

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Put another log on the fire

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Hi to all SWLing Post community! FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what audio treats the Imaginary Stations crew have in store for you next week.

On Saturday 4th January 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also on Sunday 5th January 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via Shortwave Gold we have the debut of WARM. If it’s cold where you are, you will already know the benefits of the show. We’re talking records to warm the cockles of your heart, blazing tunes and even a couple of simmering cover versions to turn up the heat on the shortwave dial.

If all goes well we will also have The Baltimore Boilermen and Boilerwomen Pipe Band in the studio bringing you a rendition of “Feeling hot, hot, hot” and some central heating tips (all subject to availability of course). It’ll be a fun hour, so wrap yourself up in your favourite blanket, put on some fluffy slippers, make yourself a hot chocolate and enjoy the show.

On Wednesday January 8th 2025 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we have another episode of the wonderful Radio Ace. Tune in for an hour of something very radio related.

For more information on all our shows, please send to imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page here.

Kind Funny Amplitude Modulation (XRPT)

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Calling all shortwave listening community, calling all shortwave listening community, FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the shortwave spectrum this coming week.

We’ve a show called KFAM (Radio fun for all the family!) on Saturday November 30th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and repeated on Sunday December 1st 2024 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and also at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via the services of Shortwave Gold. Expect all sorts of family related tunes whether they be Family Favourites, tunes about your mum, dad, sister or brother or about that old uncle or aunt that pops around unexpectantly so does the best crockery.

So gather around at the alloted time, turn on that shortwave radio and feel a part of something and revel “in the theatre of our imagination” with KFAM.

Then on Wednesday December 4th 2024 at 0300 UTC via WRMI we have the return of XRPT. This is a mix-up of various themes, Imaginary Station shows of the past, present and future, once described as “a non-linear journey into the creative process of the Skybird crew” and a well interesting listen, so set that (radio) alarm and do not miss it!

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