{"id":63412,"date":"2025-07-23T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63412"},"modified":"2025-07-19T04:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T08:50:33","slug":"youd-catch-em-surfin-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/youd-catch-em-surfin-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;d catch &#8217;em surfin&#8217; in the library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63413\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/SURF_3_July_-2025_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings to all SWLing Post community, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/645518492146690\"><strong>Imaginary Stations<\/strong> <\/a>have got a couple of treats for you this week.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more surfboard madness with<strong> SURF 3 <\/strong>on <strong>Saturday 26th July 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 27th 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>).<\/p>\n<p>Propagation may be choppy of late but there will be waves you can jump on to enjoy another hour of tunes about wearing fullsuits, watching out for corduroy approaching (that&#8217;s not the trousers and jacket combo, we mean &#8220;a series of swells marching in from the horizon&#8221;) and hopping on those party waves. Tune in and get surfing without getting soaked to the skin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-63414\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shortwave-Music-Library_July_-2025_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve a new episode of the interesting <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Shortwave Music Library <\/strong>on <strong>Wednesday 30th July 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>0200 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a>. <\/strong>C<span class=\"gmail-ILfuVd\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"gmail-hgKElc\">hief music librarian DJ Frederick is behind the reception desk picking out some eclectic tunes from his\u00a0 collection. Expect all sorts of musical goodness from across all genres and we&#8217;d appreciated it if you could keep noise down to a minimum during the broadcast as it is a library after all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s more about the show.<\/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\/21WqEKVAs0c?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, Imaginary Stations have got a couple of treats for you this week. There&#8217;s more surfboard madness with SURF 3 on Saturday 26th July 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday 27th July 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz [&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":[10264,7929,10669,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,10852,10857,10856,9326,61],"class_list":["post-63412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-cool","tag-dj-frederick","tag-downbeat-on-shortwave","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-surf","tag-surf-3","tag-surf2","tag-the-shortwave-music-library","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-guM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63385,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/more-shortwave-surfing-with-cool\/","url_meta":{"origin":63412,"position":0},"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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