{"id":59526,"date":"2024-04-19T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T04:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59526"},"modified":"2024-04-14T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:09:37","slug":"no-birds-do-sing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/no-birds-do-sing\/","title":{"rendered":"No birds do sing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WREN-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59527\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WREN-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"737\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WREN-Shortwave-Gold.jpg 737w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WREN-Shortwave-Gold-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/WREN-Shortwave-Gold-624x439.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi <strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong> here letting you know of our forthcoming shows this week. On <strong>Sunday 21st April 2024<\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>0900\/1300 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0and then at <strong>2000 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>6160 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> we have <strong>WREN<\/strong> beamed to Europe via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>. This show will feature lots of our feathered friends and we will be bringing you some bird-watching related classics and live birdsong. Binoculars and a bird watching chart at the ready please!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shortwave-music-library-April-25th-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59528\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shortwave-music-library-April-25th-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"739\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shortwave-music-library-April-25th-2024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shortwave-music-library-April-25th-2024-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shortwave-music-library-April-25th-2024-624x583.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\"><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">On <strong>Thursday 25th April<\/strong> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong>WRMI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 we bring you another episode of <strong>The Shortwave Music Library<\/strong> at <strong>0200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz.<\/strong> DJ Frederick flicks through his music collection and brings you more eclectic tunes for your listening pleasure. Expect a multi-genre selection of course.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/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\u2019s our fundraising video below. We\u2019d love to keep our show on the air for the rest of the year and we are 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 FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know of our forthcoming shows this week. On Sunday 21st April 2024\u00a0at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz we have WREN beamed to Europe via Shortwave Gold. This show will feature lots of our feathered friends and we will be bringing [&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":[7929,9110,9918,10065,9227,10066,10255,10083,9980,61],"class_list":["post-59526","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-ksol","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-shortwave-music-library","tag-wren","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fu6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57443,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/an-exotic-bird-flew-into-a-supermarket\/","url_meta":{"origin":59526,"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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