{"id":61824,"date":"2025-01-29T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61824"},"modified":"2025-01-24T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:33:19","slug":"a-shortwave-mystery-on-the-45th-parallel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/a-shortwave-mystery-on-the-45th-parallel\/","title":{"rendered":"A shortwave mystery on the 45th Parallel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61825\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WMMR-2025_SG_FEB-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Good day all SWLing Post community far and wide! <strong>FastRadioBurst 23 <\/strong>here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your shortwave listening pleasure.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">On <strong>Saturday 1st January February 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and also on <strong>Sunday 2nd <\/strong><strong>February 2025<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1400 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong> and at <strong>2100 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong> we&#8217;ll be bringing you <strong>WMMR<\/strong>, another show where the listener has to guess what the theme is. Tune in and let us know what you think it is. It could be anything from dreams, the bus stops or apple orchards but we are not giving away any clues, you will have to decide.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61826\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/45th-Parallel-Winter-Broadcast-2025_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">On <strong>Wednesday 5th February 2025<\/strong> at <strong>0300 UTC<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a> <\/strong>we have our yearly <strong>45th Parallel Midwinter broadcast<\/strong>. As it says on the special press release direct from the Imaginary Stations HQ in special gold print: &#8220;Enjoy a unique programme of music and messages for anyone who lives on, above or below the 45th parallel&#8221;. It will be great so do listen in!<span id=\"L1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/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\/Nfvuc1KI5Yc?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 write 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 all SWLing Post community far and wide! FastRadioBurst 23 here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your shortwave listening pleasure. On Saturday 1st January February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 2nd February 2025 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on [&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":[10126,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10336],"class_list":["post-61824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-45th-parallel","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wmmr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g5a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65225,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/hop-on-the-bus-to-the-45th-parallel\/","url_meta":{"origin":61824,"position":0},"title":"Hop on the bus to the 45th Parallel","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"January 28, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, This week Imaginary Stations takes you on another journey with KBUS through the ionosphere via\u00a0shortwaveradio.de\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday 31st January 2026\u00a0at\u00a01200 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz. 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