{"id":62955,"date":"2025-05-21T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T04:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62955"},"modified":"2025-05-21T02:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T06:12:06","slug":"get-tuned-in-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/get-tuned-in-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Get tuned in dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62956\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-2025_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/From-Beatles-to-Beatniks-too-_May-_24_-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 bring you another episode of the Fab Four beat classic, <strong>From Beatles to Beatniks Too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be a square, drop out and spin that crazy shortwave dial on <strong>Saturday 24th May 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again for <strong>Sunday 25th 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>).<\/p>\n<p>Get your beret and sunglasses on and tune into more good stuff from other cats who understand us beats, man. Fall into a shortwave world of hipsville for an hour!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62957\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-MAY-28th-2025-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On<strong> Wednesday 28th 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 (train) station called <strong>CTRN<\/strong> <span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">for all lovers of railroads and trains. Tune in for a mixture of steam and electric train classics for everyone, from the person behind the ticket kiosk, station staff and the humble passenger. Stand clear of the moving doors please!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More on CTRN 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\/nlLTcVT0qYc?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 bring you another episode of the Fab Four beat classic, From Beatles to Beatniks Too. Don\u2019t be a square, drop out and spin that crazy shortwave dial on Saturday 24th May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again for [&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":[9450,7929,9110,7928,10818,9918,10065,10066,10255,10272,61],"class_list":["post-62955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ctrn","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-from-beatles-to-beatnicks-too","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-gnp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61883,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/beatles-bigfoot-and-skybird\/","url_meta":{"origin":62955,"position":0},"title":"Beatles, Bigfoot and Skybird","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"February 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all SWLing Post community! FastRadioBurst 23 here with what Imaginary Stations will be bringing you this week for your listening pleasure. On Saturday 8th February 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and also on Sunday 9th February 2025 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2100 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\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Free-Radio-Skybird-Feb-2025_WRMI-copy.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":62955,"position":1},"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. 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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":62726,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/destination-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":62955,"position":3},"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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