{"id":61020,"date":"2024-11-07T06:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61020"},"modified":"2024-11-07T06:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:19:48","slug":"secret-agents-hanging-on-the-telephone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/secret-agents-hanging-on-the-telephone\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret agents hanging on the telephone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61021\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/On-Hold-Radio_SG_Nov-2024-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Hi to all SWLing Post community.<strong> FastRadioBurst 23 <\/strong>here letting you know about what Imaginary Stations have coming to the shortwaves this coming week. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">The first show is brought to you via the services of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday November 9th 2024<\/strong> at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and on <strong>Sunday November 10th 2024<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong>\u00a0and then at <strong>2100 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Imagine you&#8217;ve dialled a number on your phone and hear in high treble quality: &#8220;At Imaginary stations, we offer a wide range of services on the shortwave bands including a show called <strong>On-Hold Radio<\/strong>. If you love hanging on the end of a telephone and listening to music do join us for the show. We&#8217;ll have classic call waiting messages and music and lots of telephonic themed tunes. Please stay on the line as your call is very important to us&#8230;&#8221; <em>(cue distorted music played slightly too slow)<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61027\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"1404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW.jpg 1404w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KSPY-Nov-2024_NEW-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1404px) 100vw, 1404px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Then on <strong>Wednesday November 13th 2024<\/strong> at <strong>0300 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>we have another secret transmission from <strong>KSPY <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI.<\/a><\/strong> There&#8217;ll be lots of spy related tunes, songs about heels of shoes with radios in them and coded messages. Get those sunglasses on, clip a pretend secret microphone to your lapel, get your one-time pad out of your bar of soap and tune into the sound of spies on shortwave. Remember if anyone asks, you didn\u2019t read it here, ok?<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\/xNLkzMHoYsw?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>Hi to all SWLing Post community. FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know about what Imaginary Stations have coming to the shortwaves this coming week. The first show is brought to you via the services of Shortwave Gold on Saturday November 9th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and on Sunday November 10th 2024 at 1000\/1200 [&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":[9450,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10113,10619,10066,10255,9326],"class_list":["post-61020","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-kspy","tag-on-hold-radio","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-the-shortwave-music-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fSc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61129,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/happy-atmospherical-radio-propagation\/","url_meta":{"origin":61020,"position":0},"title":"Happy atmospherical radio propagation","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"November 20, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know what Imaginary Stations are bringing to the airwaves this coming week. We've a show on Saturday November 16th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and repeated on Sunday November 17th 2024 at 1000\/1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also\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\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Radio-Ace-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60980,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/sleeping-in-via-the-ionosphere\/","url_meta":{"origin":61020,"position":1},"title":"Sleeping in thanks to the ionosphere","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"October 30, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Good morning\/afternoon\/evening to all SWLing Post community. FastRadioBurst 23 here in a dressing gown drinking a coffee as I've just woken up, but I am awake enough to let you know about what Imaginary Stations have coming to the shortwaves this coming week. There'll be a couple of episodes of\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\/10\/WREM-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WREM-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WREM-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WREM-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":61090,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/harping-on-about-biscuits-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":61020,"position":2},"title":"Harping on about biscuits again","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"November 13, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of what's on shortwave via Imaginary Stations this week. From the transmitters of Shortwave Gold on Saturday November 16th 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and on Sunday November 17th 2024 at 1000\/1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2100\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\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WTBR-Nov-2024.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60919,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/using-the-imagination-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":61020,"position":3},"title":"Using the imagination again","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"October 23, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi SWLing Post community, FastRadioBurst 23 here with news of the Imaginary Stations radio shows\u00a0 bouncing off the ionosphere this week. This weekend we have another of those \"name that theme\" shows of WMMR. Like the last WMMR show, it has a mystery theme running throughout and we ask our\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\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":61203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/kind-funny-amplitude-modulation-xrpt-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":61020,"position":4},"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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On Saturday December 21st 2024 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and repeated on Sunday December 22nd 2024 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also at 2100 UTC\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\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Radio-Thrift-Shop-Dec-2024_2.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61028,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61020\/revisions\/61028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}