{"id":62878,"date":"2025-05-14T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T04:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62878"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:29:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:29:53","slug":"we-know-our-groceries-daddy-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/we-know-our-groceries-daddy-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"We know our groceries daddy-oh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62879\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks_May-_17-2025_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community from the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we are dropping out from the normal world man and bringing you a show called <strong>From Beatles to Beatniks.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be a shortwave square, get yourself a radio or an SDR that picks up some of the shortwave spectrum. Spin that dial on <strong>Saturday 17th May 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again for <strong>Sunday 18th 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 the services of<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"> Shortwave Gold<\/a><\/strong>). You won\u2019t be needing any bread for this transmission either, it&#8217;s all free via the ionosphere!<\/p>\n<p>The experience won&#8217;t be dullsville, it&#8217;ll be a mop-top beatnik hootenanny. Expect some cool poetry read straight from a battered notebook, covers of the Fab Four&#8217;s greatest tunes and general beat madness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62880\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/KMRT-MAY-2025-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On<strong> Wednesday 21st May 2025<\/strong>\u00a0via<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"> WRMI <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong> we&#8217;re bringing you a retail relay station in the form of <strong>KMRT<\/strong>. In the words of our (aisle) controller, it&#8217;s &#8220;Your official shortwave supermarket station&#8221; and it truly is, loyal shopping fans! Tune in for blue light specials and tunes about shopping. There may be the odd refund, a reduction for something that looks a bit battered and bruised but remember our show is fully guaranteed to cheer you up (*normal T+Cs apply).<\/p>\n<p>More on KMRT 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\/JpE9jZtPnEA?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 Micoud page <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastR<\/strong><strong>adioBurst 23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community from the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we are dropping out from the normal world man and bringing you a show called From Beatles to Beatniks. Don\u2019t be a shortwave square, get yourself a radio or an SDR that picks up some of the shortwave spectrum. Spin that dial [&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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10272,61],"class_list":["post-62878","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-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gma","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/more-international-shortwave-radio-sounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":62878,"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. 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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. 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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":63385,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/more-shortwave-surfing-with-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":62878,"position":4},"title":"More shortwave surfing with COOL","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings to all SWLing Post community, here's this week's shortwave transmissions from the Imaginary Stations crew. 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