{"id":58524,"date":"2023-12-22T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58524"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:06:26","slug":"happy-holiday-festive-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/happy-holiday-festive-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holiday Festive Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58525\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1678\" height=\"852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23.jpg 1678w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23-1536x780.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Imaginary-stations-WinterHoliday-Show-12_23-624x317.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1678px) 100vw, 1678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi all SWLing Post Community, <strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong> and all The Imaginary Stations crew, wish you a great festive season and send our best wishes to all for 2024! This week we&#8217;ve an Imaginary Stations Winter Special going out to Europe via<strong> Shortwave Gold<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday 24th December 2023 <\/strong>at <strong>1000\/1400 hrs UTC<\/strong> on<strong> 6160 kHz <\/strong>and then on <strong>3975 kHz\u00a0<\/strong>at <strong>2100 UTC. <\/strong>Pour yourself an egg nog if that&#8217;s your tipple of choice, tune in and enjoy the festive tunes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58526\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer-768x250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Radio-Thift-Shop-\u2013-Holiday-show-December-2023-Flyer-624x203.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on early<b> Monday <strong>25<\/strong><\/b><strong>th December <\/strong>we have a show from deep within the Radio Thrift Shop archives, a Winter Holiday Special. Tune in at <strong>0300 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>via WRMI for the more eclectic side of yuletide\/winter solstice programming featuring some wonderful tunes including a super one from <span id=\"snippet-text\" class=\"style-scope ytd-text-inline-expander\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" role=\"text\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\">Sharon Jones &amp; The Dap-Kings<\/span><\/span><\/span> with &#8220;World of Love&#8221; and a mini-documentary called &#8220;In Search of the Shaggs&#8221; the rock band formed in Fremont, New Hampshire in 1965. More on the Radio Thift Store show below:<\/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\/GedCc4sNrP0?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=133&#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<p>Enjoy the festive season and have a wonderful 2024! 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all SWLing Post Community, FastRadioBurst 23 and all The Imaginary Stations crew, wish you a great festive season and send our best wishes to all for 2024! This week we&#8217;ve an Imaginary Stations Winter Special going out to Europe via Shortwave Gold on Sunday 24th December 2023 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz [&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":[7929,10055,9110,10400,9918,10065,10066,10402,10255,10401,61],"class_list":["post-58524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-dj-frederick-moe","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-festive-programmes","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-sharon-jones-the-dap-kings","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-the-shaggs","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fdW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58587,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/mysteries-of-a-shortwave-nature\/","url_meta":{"origin":58524,"position":0},"title":"Mysteries of a shortwave nature","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"December 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Firstly FastRadioBurst 23 and the Imaginary Stations Crew send our best wishes to all of the SWLing Post Community for 2024! 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