{"id":63011,"date":"2025-05-28T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63011"},"modified":"2025-05-26T06:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T10:22:11","slug":"the-unknown-themed-shortwave-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-unknown-themed-shortwave-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The unknown themed shortwave show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63017\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WMMR_MAY_-2025_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community from us all the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we have a bit of an on-air <span data-huuid=\"11678642604256463920\">conundrum<\/span> that needs to be solved.<\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Saturday 31st May 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again for <strong>Sunday 1st June 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>) we will bring you the newest episode of <strong>WMMR (Mystery Mix Radio)<\/strong> where we have a theme which we don&#8217;t give away and you, the listener tries to guess what it is from the music played.<\/p>\n<p>Instructions on how to enter are on the show and the winner who guesses correctly wins a special e-QSL. Tune in and solve the mystery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63016\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CTRN-June-4th-2025_FLYER-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On<strong> Wednesday 4th May 2025<\/strong>\u00a0via<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"> WRMI <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>0200 UTC<\/strong> we bring you another locomotive special called <strong>CTRN<\/strong> for all lovers of locomotive classics, (rock <span data-huuid=\"17741997278117301821\">&#8216;n&#8217;<\/span>) rolling stock and sounds to keep you on the right track. It&#8217;ll be a shortwave journey without needing tickets and one where you don&#8217;t need to keep your eyes out for inspectors issuing fines. We can&#8217;t guarantee a buffet trolley on this musical journey, so we ask shortwave passengers to provide your own just in case. We just ask that you don&#8217;t put your feet up on the seat opposite, please.<\/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>FastRadioBurst 23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community from us all the Imaginary Stations crew. This week we have a bit of an on-air conundrum that needs to be solved. On Saturday 31st May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again for Sunday 1st June 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2000 UTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[9450,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10272,10336,61],"class_list":["post-63011","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-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-skybird-radio-international","tag-wmmr","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-goj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66439,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/more-jamming-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":63011,"position":0},"title":"More jamming on shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"June 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here's what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this week. On Wednesday June 24th at 2000 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz via Shortwave Gold, we bring you Skybird Jams. 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This weekend we have another of those \"name that theme\" shows of WMMR. Like the last WMMR show, it has a mystery theme running throughout and we ask our\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\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WMMR_October-2024_NEW_.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":66500,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/making-waves-and-jam\/","url_meta":{"origin":63011,"position":3},"title":"Making waves (and jam)","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"July 7, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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