{"id":59044,"date":"2024-02-23T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59044"},"modified":"2024-02-20T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T06:17:29","slug":"chasing-rainbows-and-pdq-bach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/chasing-rainbows-and-pdq-bach\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing rainbows and PDQ Bach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59045\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1901\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024.jpg 1901w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024-1536x781.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WRBW-Flyer-Feb-2024-624x317.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1901px) 100vw, 1901px\" \/><\/a>Hi all SWLing Post Community,\u00a0<strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong>\u00a0from Imaginary Stations crew letting you know about our shows this week. Via the services of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1708495879597000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1bpZ3fERKzGIJuxJn_XR5v\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>Sunday 25th February 2024<\/strong>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>1000\/1400 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0and then at\u00a0<strong>2100 UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>3975 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0we have the many colours of\u00a0<strong>WRBW<\/strong> &#8220;Where rainbows connect us all&#8221;. Expect all the colours of the rainbow and a pantone swatch book of hits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59046\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/WOOF-_PDQ-Bach-flyer-624x327.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then via<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1708495879597000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1pXjkItAAcKOGOGIr7xlqK\"><strong>WRMI<\/strong><\/a> on Thursday\u00a029th\u00a0February\u00a02024\u00a0at\u00a00300 UTC\u00a0on\u00a09395 kHz\u00a0we have a musical tribute to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Schickele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Schickele&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1708495879597000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3GfPG5ITzC0wKlz6GpPErE\"><strong>Peter Schickele<\/strong><\/a>, Composer, Satirist, Radio DJ and bon vivant. Our tribute is an hour of music from PDQ Bach, the &#8220;youngest and the oddest of the twenty-odd children of Johann Sebastian Bach&#8221;. The show is certainly one interesting listen and something different for your airwaves. Tune in next Thursday and enjoy some classical madness.<\/p>\n<p>We are still looking for some financial help to cover our production and transmission costs for our shows on shortwave so here&#8217;s our fundraising video below. We&#8217;d love to keep our show on the air for the rest of 2024 and looking for donations (no matter how small as everything helps) to keep our shows bouncing off that ionosphere. Remember radio connects us all!<\/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\/KwP4w-lulBQ?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<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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all SWLing Post Community,\u00a0FastRadioBurst 23\u00a0from Imaginary Stations crew letting you know about our shows this week. Via the services of\u00a0Shortwave Gold\u00a0on\u00a0Sunday 25th February 2024\u00a0at\u00a01000\/1400 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at\u00a02100 UTC\u00a0on\u00a03975 kHz\u00a0we have the many colours of\u00a0WRBW &#8220;Where rainbows connect us all&#8221;. Expect all the colours of the rainbow and a pantone swatch book of [&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":[7929,10055,9110,9918,10065,10066,10451,10255,10450,61],"class_list":["post-59044","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-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-peter-schickele","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wrbw","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fmk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62166,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/is-that-whistling-i-hear-my-dear\/","url_meta":{"origin":59044,"position":0},"title":"Is that whistling I hear, my dear?","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"February 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We at Imaginary Stations have another whistling and in gainful employment combination show coming out over the airwaves this weekend. 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