{"id":63290,"date":"2025-07-02T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63290"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:56:04","slug":"shortwave-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/shortwave-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63298\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Downbeat-on-shortwave_Programme-2_July-2025_2-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community, here&#8217;s a couple of programmes we&#8217;ve lined up for you this week.<\/p>\n<p>We bring you <strong>Downbeat on Shortwave<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 5th July 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 6th July 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>). Guest DJs <span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Jesse Yuen and One Deck Pete bring you two 15 minute downtempo mixes each of some ambient and downtempo vibes to help you drift away. Expect some blissful vibes for a Sunday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63300\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Skybird-Drive-in-Show_July-2025_WRMI_2-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve got an episode of the <strong>SkyBird Drive in Radio <\/strong>on <strong>Wednesday 9th July 2025 <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">Make yourself a tasty snack (hot dogs, tacos, ice cream or burgers) and turn on that in-car shortwave AM radio for the full sound experience. Imagine you\u2019re in a big cadillac, tilt your seat back (but not too far) and enjoy all sorts of cinema related tunes as you would in an outdoor experience (unless you are listening to the radio outdoors). Enjoy our evening\u2019s programming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a trailer about the Skybird Drive in to get you in that cinematic mood.<\/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\/ZlELB-NqL-U?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 Mixcloud 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, here&#8217;s a couple of programmes we&#8217;ve lined up for you this week. We bring you Downbeat on Shortwave on Saturday 5th July 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday 6th July 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and [&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_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":[7929,10669,9110,7928,9918,10671,10065,10066,10255,10272,10849,61],"class_list":["post-63290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-downbeat-on-shortwave","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-jesse-yuen","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-skybird-radio-international","tag-the-skybird-drive-in","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gsO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":61724,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/downtempo-warmth-for-your-radio-dial\/","url_meta":{"origin":63290,"position":0},"title":"Downtempo and warmth for your radio dial","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"January 15, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community! 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