{"id":60864,"date":"2024-10-16T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60864"},"modified":"2024-10-16T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T09:30:07","slug":"xrpt-and-trains-on-the-shortwave-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/xrpt-and-trains-on-the-shortwave-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"XRPT and trains on the shortwave tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60866\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/XRPT-_October-2024_Magenta-1-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Hello all shortwave listeners and SWLing Post community,<strong> FastRadioBurst 23 <\/strong>here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows this week. This <strong>Sunday October 20th 2024<\/strong> there&#8217;s a new show called <strong>XRPT<\/strong>. We are not going to give much away about it but look forward to a non-linear journey into the creative process of the Skybird crew&#8221;. This show is brought to you via the services of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong> at <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>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60867\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1131\" height=\"1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER.jpg 1131w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CTRN_OCTOBER-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Then on <strong>Wednesday October 23rd 2024<\/strong> at <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>there&#8217;s <strong>CTRN 5<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a><\/strong> for all lovers of railroads and trains. Tune in for a mixture of locomotive and electric train classics for all train crew, station staff and passengers to enjoy. Stand clear of the doors please.<br \/>\n<\/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\/nlLTcVT0qYc?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<\/div>\n<p>For more information on all our shows, please send\u00a0 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>Hello all shortwave listeners and SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows this week. This Sunday October 20th 2024 there&#8217;s a new show called XRPT. We are not going to give much away about it but look forward to a non-linear journey into the creative process of 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":[9450,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10272,9326,61,10616],"class_list":["post-60864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ctrn","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-skybird-radio-international","tag-the-shortwave-music-library","tag-wrmi","tag-xrpt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fPG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/kind-funny-amplitude-modulation-xrpt-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":60864,"position":0},"title":"Kind Funny Amplitude Modulation (XRPT)","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"November 27, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Calling all shortwave listening community, calling all shortwave listening community,\u00a0 FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the shortwave spectrum this coming week. 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