{"id":57745,"date":"2023-09-15T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57745"},"modified":"2023-09-12T05:25:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T09:25:41","slug":"transmitting-through-those-short-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/transmitting-through-those-short-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmitting through those short waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57746\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1862\" height=\"2079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23.jpg 1862w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-269x300.jpg 269w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-917x1024.jpg 917w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-768x858.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-1376x1536.jpg 1376w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-1834x2048.jpg 1834w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/shortwave-Music-lIbrary-Shortwave-Gold_9_23-624x697.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1862px) 100vw, 1862px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi SWLing Post Community, FastRadioBurst 23 bringing you news of this week&#8217;s Imaginary Stations related broadcasts this <strong>Sunday 17th September 2023<\/strong>. At <strong>2000 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 <\/strong>&amp;<strong> 6160 kHz<\/strong> we have DJ Frederick&#8217;s <strong>Shortwave Music Library<\/strong> where he picks out some choice classics and rarities not usually aired heard over the wireless. Expect all sorts of eclectic stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57747\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-1024x313.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-768x234.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-1536x469.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-2048x625.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WTAB-_-WRMI-_9_23-624x191.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talking of wireless, at <strong>2200 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>9395 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong>via WRMI<\/strong><\/a> the Imaginary Stations crew bring you <strong>WTAB<\/strong>. A trip back in time where trebly voices and music flowed through horn type loudspeakers and when it got too loud a spare sock would dampen the sound. The days when radio stations always kept a box of rose thorns as back up needles for their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gramophones.info\/graminformation.html\">gramophones <\/a><\/strong>too! Expect some old tunes from way back in the day!<\/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>.<\/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\/LEbOa5qES-g?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 SWLing Post Community, FastRadioBurst 23 bringing you news of this week&#8217;s Imaginary Stations related broadcasts this Sunday 17th September 2023. At 2000 hrs UTC on 3975 &amp; 6160 kHz we have DJ Frederick&#8217;s Shortwave Music Library where he picks out some choice classics and rarities not usually aired heard over the wireless. Expect all [&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":[7929,9110,9918,10065,10066,10255,9326,61,9134],"class_list":["post-57745","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-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-the-shortwave-music-library","tag-wrmi","tag-wtab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f1n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65536,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/shelfmarks-and-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":57745,"position":0},"title":"Shelfmarks and shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community. 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