{"id":53687,"date":"2022-08-26T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T04:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=53687"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:44:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T14:44:11","slug":"the-shortwave-showdown-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-shortwave-showdown-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The shortwave showdown of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53765\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1556\" height=\"1550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1.jpg 1556w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-1536x1530.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Toots-Vs-Welk-1-624x622.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi all the SWLing post community. Fingers crossed all stops will be pulled out this weekend via WRMI with the broadcast of <strong>TOOTS vs WELK.<\/strong> This programme in the Imaginary stations series will be a showdown of music from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/120623-Toots-Thielemans\">Toots Thielemans<\/a><\/strong> in the left hand corner and the great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/439532-Lawrence-Welk\"><strong>Lawrence Welk<\/strong><\/a> in the right. The transmission will be on air on 9395 kHz from 2200 utc on Sunday 28th August 2022. Tune in for a great musical encounter!<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a guide how to listen to Imaginary stations from the good folks there. Watch and enjoy. <strong>Fastradioburst23\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fwQpZV2OCRA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=118&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all the SWLing post community. Fingers crossed all stops will be pulled out this weekend via WRMI with the broadcast of TOOTS vs WELK. This programme in the Imaginary stations series will be a showdown of music from Toots Thielemans in the left hand corner and the great Lawrence Welk in the right. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43,1167],"tags":[7929,7928,9918,9868,9929,9928,9870,61],"class_list":["post-53687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-lawrence-welk","tag-toots","tag-toots-thielemans","tag-welk","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dXV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/93-95-was-my-number\/","url_meta":{"origin":53687,"position":0},"title":"93-95 was my number","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"June 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all the SWLing post community. 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This Imaginary stations episode will be a showdown of music from Toots Thielemans in the left hand studio and the great Lawrence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Toot-Vs-Welk_July-2023.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":53156,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/squeezeboxes-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":53687,"position":1},"title":"Squeezeboxes on shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi SWLing Post community, Fastradioburst23 here letting you know about two transmissions of\u00a0 WELK, another installment of the imaginary radio stations show to be broadcast this weekend and next by the good folks at WRMI. The first transmission is on Sunday 3rd July 2022 then Sunday 10th July 2022 both\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WELK.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WELK.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WELK.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WELK.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/WELK.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":55978,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/wstl-while-you-welk\/","url_meta":{"origin":53687,"position":2},"title":"WSTL while you WELK","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Fastradioburst23 here to let you know about our next imaginary Stations offering on Sunday 5th March 2023 on 9395 kHz at 2300 hrs UTC. This week it's a KBIN special featuring WSTL and WELK. Tune in and enjoy some whistling, accordion tunes and even maybe some yodelling. Enjoy! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p_MBNBvehOg","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Guest Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Guest Posts","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/guest-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KBIN-March-2023.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KBIN-March-2023.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KBIN-March-2023.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KBIN-March-2023.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/KBIN-March-2023.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":53292,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/further-adventures-of-welk\/","url_meta":{"origin":53687,"position":3},"title":"Further adventures of WELK","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community, it's Fastradioburst23 again letting you know about the second transmission of WELK this evening at 2200 utc on 9395 kHz thanks to the good folks at WRMI. 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