{"id":62726,"date":"2025-04-30T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62726"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:06:23","slug":"destination-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/destination-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Destination Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62727\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good day all SWLing Post readers from us here at Imaginary Stations. Here\u2019s our transmission schedule for the forthcoming week. The first programme is a return of the onshore\/offshore pirate radio sound of <strong>Skybird Radio International<\/strong>. It goes out on <strong>Saturday <\/strong><strong>3rd <\/strong><strong>May 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then repeated on <strong>Sunday <\/strong><strong>4th May 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>Take a shortwave flight around the globe and treat yourself to various music genres from all points around this spinning ball we call Earth that orbits around the sun at a speed of over 67,000 miles per hour. Tickets are not needed; there\u2019s no booking of a taxi to the airport nor any room reservations to be completed via a form on the internet. All you do is tune your shortwave set in at the allotted time to enjoy all sorts of worldwide sounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62728\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve another transmission on<strong> Wednesday 7th May 2025<\/strong>\u00a0via<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"> WRMI <\/a><\/strong>at our new time of <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong>. It&#8217;s <strong>Skybird Radio International <\/strong>again but a completely different show chosen from our archives. Expect some top-quality sounds from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Skybird Radio International 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\/D-XU4VuR4Fc?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>Good day all SWLing Post readers from us here at Imaginary Stations. Here\u2019s our transmission schedule for the forthcoming week. The first programme is a return of the onshore\/offshore pirate radio sound of Skybird Radio International. It goes out on Saturday 3rd May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then repeated on Sunday 4th [&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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10272,10514,61],"class_list":["post-62726","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-skybird-radio-international","tag-test-cards-on-radio","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gjI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/more-international-shortwave-radio-sounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":62726,"position":0},"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":63940,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/an-international-school-of-thought\/","url_meta":{"origin":62726,"position":1},"title":"An international school of thought","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"September 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, here's the Imaginary Stations shortwave schedule for this week. On Saturday 20th September 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday 21st September 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2100 UTC (new time slot) on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz\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\/09\/Skybird-school-of-the-air_2_September_-2025_RATED-Second.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Skybird-school-of-the-air_2_September_-2025_RATED-Second.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Skybird-school-of-the-air_2_September_-2025_RATED-Second.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Skybird-school-of-the-air_2_September_-2025_RATED-Second.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":62726,"position":2},"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":62320,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/onshore-and-offshore-skybird-keeps-on-keeping-on\/","url_meta":{"origin":62726,"position":3},"title":"Onshore and offshore, Radio Skybird keeps on keeping on","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-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\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Free-Radio-Skybird-2nd-program-March-2025.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":60619,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/skybird-radio-international-flies-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":62726,"position":4},"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. 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