{"id":62663,"date":"2025-04-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62663"},"modified":"2025-04-22T05:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:05:35","slug":"more-atmospheric-phenomena-predictions-on-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/more-atmospheric-phenomena-predictions-on-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"More atmospheric phenomena predictions on shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Weather-Channel_April-2025_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-62664\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Weather-Channel_April-2025_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Weather-Channel_April-2025_2.jpg 571w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Weather-Channel_April-2025_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-Weather-Channel_April-2025_2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi to all the SWLing community worldwide. Imaginary Stations have a couple of programmes on the shortwaves this week for your listening pleasure. The first is on <strong>Saturday 26th April 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then repeated on <strong>Sunday 27th April 2025<\/strong> at <strong>0900\/1300 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong> and at <strong>2000 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>via<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"> Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another episode of <strong>The Weather Channel <\/strong>where we bring you &#8220;All weather, all the time&#8221;. Expect an avalanche of tunes that feature mentions of atmospheric phenomena all the way from Isobars to Icicles, some classics of a high- and low-pressure nature and some heavy \u201cWeather rock\u201d to play your air barometer to. Tune in and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62665\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1131\" height=\"1131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024.jpg 1131w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/testcards-on-radio_WRMI-April-2024-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1131px) 100vw, 1131px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently we found some bad news on the internet where it mentioned that \u201cTV test cards are now only rarely seen outside of television studios, post-production, and distribution facilities. They are no longer intended to assist viewers in calibration of television sets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That made us feel very sad here at Imaginary Stations, so on <strong>Wednesday 30th April 2025<\/strong> at our new time of <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI <\/a><\/strong>we bring you another episode of <strong>Test Cards on Radio<\/strong>. We want to bring back the good times where it was all about screen calibration, test tones and adjusting that TV antenna on the roof with a bit of the good old \u201cleft a bit, right a bit\u201d technique.<\/p>\n<p>Tune into a golden time when the standard resolution was 525 and 625 lines and bring back some vertical and horizontal hold back into your life.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Weather Channel here:<\/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\/zsZSzRRGm8g?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 Mix cloud page <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi to all the SWLing community worldwide. Imaginary Stations have a couple of programmes on the shortwaves this week for your listening pleasure. The first is on Saturday 26th April 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then repeated on Sunday 27th April 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 [&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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10514,10743,10750,61],"class_list":["post-62663","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","tag-test-cards-on-radio","tag-the-weather-channel","tag-weather-channel-2","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-giH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62578,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/whatever-the-weather\/","url_meta":{"origin":62663,"position":0},"title":"Whatever the weather","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all of the SWLing community worldwide. 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The first is on Saturday 29th March 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 30th March 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2000\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\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/NEWWMMR-Late-March-2025.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62480,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/whats-the-recipe-today-jim\/","url_meta":{"origin":62663,"position":2},"title":"What&#8217;s the recipe today Jim?","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 2, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A big hello to all the SWLing community everywhere. Imaginary Stations have a couple of interesting programmes going out over the airwaves this week. The first is on Saturday 5th April 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 6th April 2025 at 0900\/1300 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\/03\/KFOG-APRIL-2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/KFOG-APRIL-2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/KFOG-APRIL-2025.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/KFOG-APRIL-2025.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":63101,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/orbiting-outer-space-via-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":62663,"position":3},"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. 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