{"id":62320,"date":"2025-03-12T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62320"},"modified":"2025-03-11T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T21:23:46","slug":"onshore-and-offshore-skybird-keeps-on-keeping-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/onshore-and-offshore-skybird-keeps-on-keeping-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Onshore and offshore, Radio Skybird keeps on keeping on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62323\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025.jpg 571w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Greetings to all SWLing community. This week in the world of shortwave entertainment, Imaginary Stations bring you more eclectic programming. As part of the 15th year anniversary series we have a transmission of <\/span><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\"><strong>Free Radio Skybird 2<\/strong>. Tune in on <\/span><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\"><strong>Saturday 15th March 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and also on <strong>Sunday 16th <\/strong><strong>March 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>.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">As with last week&#8217;s show, expect more tunes from the onshore and offshore genre, a mini-feature on the musician<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Sullivan_(musician)\"><strong> Jim Sullivan<\/strong><\/a> and lots more interesting stuff during the hour that&#8217;s beamed to Europe via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\">Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>. Turn on (the shortwave radio) and tune in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62322\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Shortwave-Music-Library-MARCH-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\">On <strong>Wednesday 19th March 2025<\/strong> at the new time of <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI <\/a><\/strong>we bring you another episode of the excellent Shortwave Music Library by <strong>DJ Frederick<\/strong>. A show well worth tuning into if you the like all sorts musicwise.<\/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\/xlPbl5KCUPU?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<p><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\"><strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to all SWLing community. This week in the world of shortwave entertainment, Imaginary Stations bring you more eclectic programming. As part of the 15th year anniversary series we have a transmission of Free Radio Skybird 2. Tune in on Saturday 15th March 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 16th March [&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":[7929,9110,7928,10729,9918,10065,10066,10255,61],"class_list":["post-62320","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-free-radio-skybird-2","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gda","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63101,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/orbiting-outer-space-via-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":62320,"position":0},"title":"Orbiting outer space via shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"June 11, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings to all SWLing Post community, we are off in orbit again on those shortwaves of ours, bringing you a couple of interesting shows to hopefully pique your imagination. The first Imaginary Stations offering is on Saturday 14th June 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday\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\/06\/Starship-Skybird_June_-2025_prog-2_FINALSG.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Starship-Skybird_June_-2025_prog-2_FINALSG.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Starship-Skybird_June_-2025_prog-2_FINALSG.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Starship-Skybird_June_-2025_prog-2_FINALSG.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62386,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/more-keeping-on-from-radio-skybird-and-radio-ace\/","url_meta":{"origin":62320,"position":1},"title":"More keeping on from Radio Skybird and Radio Ace","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 19, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings to all the SWLing community, hope things are well, wherever you are. This week coming, Imaginary Stations hoist the sails on the pirate ship Skybird again and brings you another audio voyage in the Free Radio Skybird series and it's the third and final planned broadcast of the station\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\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60619,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/skybird-radio-international-flies-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":62320,"position":2},"title":"Skybird Radio International flies again","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"September 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi it\u2019s FastRadioBurst 23 here letting you know that the Imaginary Stations crew will be bringing to you the return of Skybird Radio International via the shortwaves on Sunday 15th September 2024\u00a0at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz\u00a0and then at 2000 UTC on 6160 kHz and 3975 kHz via Shortwave Gold. Expect\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\/09\/Skybird-Radio-Int_Sept-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Skybird-Radio-Int_Sept-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Skybird-Radio-Int_Sept-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Skybird-Radio-Int_Sept-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/more-international-shortwave-radio-sounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":62320,"position":3},"title":"More international shortwave radio sounds","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"May 7, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings to all SWLing Post readers from all the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we bring you more programmes featuring the international onshore\/offshore pirate radio sounds of Skybird Radio International. Get your shortwave radio ready for an audio journey on Saturday 10th May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and\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\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62726,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/destination-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":62320,"position":4},"title":"Destination Earth","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all SWLing Post readers from us here at Imaginary Stations. 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