Tag Archives: The Weather Channel

Imagination and strange cloud formations

Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations bring you WLIS (We love Imaginary Stations). It’s a homage to imaginary, fictitious or fabricated radio stations that have appeared in films, books and music. Remember Jimi Hendrix’s EXP, Wolfman Jack on XERB, Harry Chapin’s WOLD, the many shows on GTA and others?

The first show is via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 10th January 2026 at 1200 hrs UTC and then again on Sunday 11th January 2026 at 1000/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and (the new time of) 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz.

Use your shortwave radio or an online SDR to tune into those radio stations that may or may not exist. If you love (fictional or non-fictional) radio, you’ll love our show!

And on Wednesday 14th January 2026 at 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz via WRMI we bring you The Weather Channel, a programme which features the joys of meteorology. So have your weather vane wired up as your antenna and keep a look out for strange cloud formations while tuning into The Weather Channel.

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 atmospheric phenomena predictions on shortwave

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.

More on the Weather Channel 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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Whatever the weather

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 on the Weather Channel 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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