{"id":61883,"date":"2025-02-05T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=61883"},"modified":"2025-02-03T04:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:44:45","slug":"beatles-bigfoot-and-skybird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/beatles-bigfoot-and-skybird\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles, Bigfoot and Skybird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/From-Beatles-to-Bigfoot-Jan-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61884\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/From-Beatles-to-Bigfoot-Jan-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/From-Beatles-to-Bigfoot-Jan-2025.jpg 571w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/From-Beatles-to-Bigfoot-Jan-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/From-Beatles-to-Bigfoot-Jan-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Good day all SWLing Post community! <strong>FastRadioBurst 23 <\/strong>here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your listening pleasure.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">On <strong>Saturday 8th February 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and also on <strong>Sunday 9th <\/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>Beatles to Bigfoot<\/strong>, a show with the songs of Lennon\/McCartney covered in a way you&#8217;ve never heard before, beatles soundalikes, plus UFOs, flying saucers and if all goes well a Yeti Choir (*subject to availability and time constraints). It&#8217;s a odd mixture but a very nice odd mixture.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61885\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">On <strong>Wednesday 12th February 2025<\/strong> at <strong>0300 UTC<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a> <\/strong>we bring you a special archive edition of <strong>Free Radio Skybird<\/strong>. Fly Skybird fly!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"L1\"><\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Also we need your help again to cover our production and transmission costs like we did in 2024. Even if you can only spare a <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">couple of dollars it still helps bring our shows to the shortwaves. Heartfelt thanks from all of the Imaginary Stations crew goes out all the folks who have sent us generous donations in the past!<\/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\/KwP4w-lulBQ?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! FastRadioBurst 23 here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your listening pleasure. On Saturday 8th February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 9th February 2025 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz via Shortwave Gold [&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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255],"class_list":["post-61883","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-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g67","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61999,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/bigfoot-seen-in-the-local-supermarket-twice\/","url_meta":{"origin":61883,"position":0},"title":"Bigfoot seen in the local supermarket twice","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"February 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all SWLing Post community! 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