{"id":57516,"date":"2023-08-18T00:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57516"},"modified":"2023-08-16T09:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T13:50:41","slug":"remember-the-good-old-days-with-a-lovely-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/remember-the-good-old-days-with-a-lovely-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the good olde days with a lovely cup of tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57517\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"831\" height=\"715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023.jpg 831w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023-768x661.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WREN-rennaissance-flyer_August-2023-624x537.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 831px) 100vw, 831px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi to all of the SWLing community, <strong>Fastradioburst23<\/strong> here with news about Imaginary Stations on the shortwaves this <strong>Sunday 20th August 2023. <\/strong>The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of <a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"><strong>Shortwave Gold<\/strong><\/a> in Germany at <strong>2000 utc<\/strong> on <strong>6160 khz <\/strong>and will feature another transmission of <strong>WREN, <\/strong>this time it\u2019s music of a Renaissance style, so turn back the hands of time to ye days of olde and tune in. You will get more out of the broadcast if you have a lute, recorder or a <span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">harpsichord handy.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WTBR-flyer_August-2023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-57518 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WTBR-flyer_August-2023.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"676\" \/><\/a>Then later at <strong>2200 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>9395 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong>via WRMI<\/strong><\/a> we bring you the debut of <strong>WTBR<\/strong>, your only official tea and biscuits radio show. There will an assortment of plain and fancy tunes and all the tea you can drink so make yourself (a tea) cosy and enjoy a nice relaxing time via the shortwaves. Even the Ionosphere will enjoy a little tea break to recharge its batteries.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the shows please email imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s the trailer for the show.<\/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\/lNmGFVd_D0I?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;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 to all of the SWLing community, Fastradioburst23 here with news about Imaginary Stations on the shortwaves this Sunday 20th August 2023. The first show will be beamed to Europe via the services of Shortwave Gold in Germany at 2000 utc on 6160 khz and will feature another transmission of WREN, this time it\u2019s music [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,9980,61,10293],"class_list":["post-57516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wren","tag-wrmi","tag-wtbr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eXG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/an-exotic-bird-flew-into-a-supermarket\/","url_meta":{"origin":57516,"position":0},"title":"An exotic bird flew into a supermarket&#8230;","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"August 11, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all our radio friends in SWLing Post land, Fastradioburst23 here hoping to not ruffle any feathers with news about Imaginary Stations on the radio this Sunday 13th August 2023. 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Just to let you know if WRMI is on the air this Sunday (fingers crossed) after an encounter with yet another hurricame expect an additional programme of\u00a0 WREN. This week's Imaginary Stations show on Sunday 13th November 2022 features our feathered\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\/11\/WREN-Announcement.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WREN-Announcement.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WREN-Announcement.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WREN-Announcement.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WREN-Announcement.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":54344,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/watch-the-birdie\/","url_meta":{"origin":57516,"position":2},"title":"Watch the birdie!","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"October 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all the SWLing post community from Fastradioburst23. 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