{"id":59987,"date":"2024-06-13T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=59987"},"modified":"2024-06-13T11:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:20:09","slug":"shortwaves-the-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/shortwaves-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave&#8217;s the WORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59988\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer-768x714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KRBR-WORD-2-Flyer-624x580.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good day shortwave folks from myself <strong>FastRadioBurst 23.<\/strong> Here\u2019s some text from the Imaginary Stations crew letting you know of our audio communications this week. On <strong>Sunday 16th June 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 bring you more on the <strong>WORD<\/strong> theme with <strong>KRBR<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We will be bringing you some additional punctuation, acronyms, commas (including one especially flown in from Oxford in the UK) and a bit of wit from <strong>Roget and his Synonyms<\/strong> (if there&#8217;s any space left on the page). We will also be hearing from a special guest from the <strong>WHPY<\/strong> era. Listen in for more words via the ionosphere.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\"><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59989\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"744\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI-768x714.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WORD-Flyer_WRMI-624x580.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Then via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Wednesday 19th June 2024<\/strong> at <strong>0200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>we bring you the original <strong>WORD<\/strong> show. We&#8217;ve words and letters, books, (Radio Phonics) laboratories, libraries, acronyms, verbs, adverbs and possibly an appearance from the Jazz influenced <strong>An ampersand or two<\/strong>. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">We must make it very clear that this show is in no way connected to <strong>STET<\/strong>, the very popular proofreader&#8217;s radio station. We apologise for any confusion that it may have caused last week.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more on <strong>WORD<\/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\/J1MEP4OgrsU?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 all our shows, please send your collection of words with spaces in between to imaginarystations@gmail.com and check out our old shows at our Mixcloud page <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good day shortwave folks from myself FastRadioBurst 23. Here\u2019s some text from the Imaginary Stations crew letting you know of our audio communications this week. On Sunday 16th June 2024\u00a0at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz we bring you more on the WORD theme with KRBR via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10551,10066,10255,10552,10543],"class_list":["post-59987","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-krbr","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-stet","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fBx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65998,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/indie-is-the-word\/","url_meta":{"origin":59987,"position":0},"title":"Indie is the WORD","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"May 6, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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