{"id":60062,"date":"2024-06-27T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60062"},"modified":"2024-06-23T15:08:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T19:08:45","slug":"and-the-living-is-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/and-the-living-is-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"And the living is easy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60063\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"1404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold.png 1404w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/COOL-June-2024._Shortwave-Gold-624x624.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><\/a>Hi it&#8217;s <strong>FastRadioBurst 23 <\/strong>here letting you know what the Imaginary Stations crew will be beaming to you this week. On <strong>Sunday 30th 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> they&#8217;ll be bringing you a touch of<b> COOL<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now the shortwave summer so over the airwaves they will be supplying some surf, sun and tunes to chill you out. So find the sun tan lotion, bring the cold drinks and shortwave radio out to the back garden no matter what the weather is like and listen to COOL. Never mind what the neighbours think, you&#8217;ll be feeling COOL!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KBUS-July-2024_NEW.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60069 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/KBUS-July-2024_NEW.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><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 3rd July 2024<\/strong> at <strong>0200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>there&#8217;s a transmission brought to you on four wheels called <strong>KBUS<\/strong>. If all goes well they&#8217;ll be a bus timetable number station, numerous bus driver\u2019s classics, conductor\u2019s sing-a-longs and a suprise appearance of a ticket inspector. Step aboard and enjoy the trip, we&#8217;ll get you there as fast as we can as long as the roads are clear. Tune in and as they said &#8220;It&#8217;ll be just the ticket!&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/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\/aFAK5uBimfg?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>We now have a Patreon page for our regular listeners <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/patreon.com\/ImaginaryStations\">here<\/a>. <\/strong>Monthly memberships are available for exclusive audio and zines.<\/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>Hi it&#8217;s FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what the Imaginary Stations crew will be beaming to you this week. On Sunday 30th June 2024\u00a0at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz they&#8217;ll be bringing you a touch of COOL. It&#8217;s now the shortwave summer so over the [&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":[10264,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10354,10066,10255],"class_list":["post-60062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-cool","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-kbus","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fCK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60190,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/after-sun-after-the-rain\/","url_meta":{"origin":60062,"position":0},"title":"After sun after the rain","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 11, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi it's FastRadioBurst 23 from Imaginary Stations here letting you know of a couple of our summertime specials this coming week. 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On Sunday 18th August 2024\u00a0at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz they have COOL 6 via Shortwave\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Guest Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Guest Posts","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/guest-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KMART-Flyer_Redo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KMART-Flyer_Redo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KMART-Flyer_Redo.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/KMART-Flyer_Redo.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60277,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/more-of-the-summer-of-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":60062,"position":3},"title":"More of the Summer of COOL","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"August 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi it\u2019s FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what the Imaginary Stations crew will be bringing to the shortwaves this week. 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