{"id":62111,"date":"2025-02-19T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62111"},"modified":"2025-02-18T05:48:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:48:34","slug":"whistling-on-the-shortwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/whistling-on-the-shortwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistling on the shortwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WSTL_WORK-Feb-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62112\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WSTL_WORK-Feb-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WSTL_WORK-Feb-2025.jpg 571w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WSTL_WORK-Feb-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WSTL_WORK-Feb-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Do you enjoy whistling while you&#8217;re at work? We at <strong>Imaginary Stations<\/strong> do too and our next programme is the combo show called <strong>WSTL\u2014WORK<\/strong>, brought to you by the powers of shortwave radio\u00a0<span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\">via\u00a0<\/span><strong><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/span>. <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">The show goes out on <strong>Saturday 22nd February 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and also on <strong>Sunday 23rd <\/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><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Expect lots of whistling tunes to keep you going through those shifts at work, ones to keep the Robin in your garden amused if you have the radio on while maintaining the flower beds and songs to make you feel like the wandering whistler (if you&#8217;re tuned in whilst on a treadmill). And as we have just read, &#8220;<span class=\"BxUVEf ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hgKElc\">People whistle to communicate feelings which cannot be readily expressed in words.&#8221; Tune in and receive those (shortwave) feelings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62113\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Radio-Ace-10-FEB-2025-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">We also have another episode of <strong>Radio Ace<\/strong> featuring the fantastic adventures of the ground\/rule breaking DJ Flash Frisbone alongside all sorts of interesting stuff on <strong>Wednesday 26th February 2025<\/strong> at <strong>0300 UTC<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">.<\/a> Tune in as Radio is Ace!<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\/D_X56nJQNgw?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><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. 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 to bring our shows to the shortwaves. So please donate to paypal.me\/DJFrederick. A heartfelt thanks from all at Imaginary Stations goes out to all the folks who have sent us generous donations in the past!<\/span> <\/span><\/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<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\"><strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you enjoy whistling while you&#8217;re at work? We at Imaginary Stations do too and our next programme is the combo show called WSTL\u2014WORK, brought to you by the powers of shortwave radio\u00a0via\u00a0Shortwave Gold. The show goes out on Saturday 22nd February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 23rd February 2025 [&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":[10698,7929,9110,9918,10065,10066,10356,10255,61,9660],"class_list":["post-62111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-beatles-to-bigfoot","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-radio-ace","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wrmi","tag-wstl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-g9N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":59098,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/whistling-and-listening\/","url_meta":{"origin":62111,"position":0},"title":"Whistling and listening","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 1, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi all SWLing Post Community,\u00a0FastRadioBurst 23 from Imaginary Stations crew letting you know about our shows this week. 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There'll be a tribute to the humble tape cassette called KSET via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 15th November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0and then again on Sunday 16th November 2025 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC on\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\/2025\/11\/KSET_November_-2025_SG_NEW.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KSET_November_-2025_SG_NEW.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KSET_November_-2025_SG_NEW.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/KSET_November_-2025_SG_NEW.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62166,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/is-that-whistling-i-hear-my-dear\/","url_meta":{"origin":62111,"position":2},"title":"Is that whistling I hear, my dear?","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"February 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"We at Imaginary Stations have another whistling and in gainful employment combination show coming out over the airwaves this weekend. 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