{"id":64305,"date":"2025-10-22T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64305"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T06:42:15","slug":"dial-s-for-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/dial-s-for-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial S for Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64306\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-Oct-2025-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, here&#8217;s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be sending up to the ionosphere this week. On <strong>Saturday 25th October 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 26th October 2025<\/strong> at <strong>0900\/1300 hrs UTC<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>6160 kHz<\/strong> and at <strong>2100 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>6160 kHz, <\/strong>we&#8217;ll be bringing you a telephone tribute via the shortwaves called <strong>Skybird Telegraph &amp; Telephone Co.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There will be lots of phone related tunes, a shortwave first in a live on-air attempt of trying to break the world record of ripping two telephone directories at the same time and an interview with someone who used to say &#8220;thank you&#8221; to the speaking clock (*subject to availability and if our phone lines are working). Tune in and join us in a celebration of the &#8220;dog and bone&#8221; (as it&#8217;s known in cockney rhythming slang).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64308\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-October-29_WRMI_FLYER-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Wednesday 29th October 2025 <\/strong>at<strong> 0200 UTC <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI <\/a><\/strong>\u00a0we bring you another <strong>Ancient Analogue Archive.<\/strong>\u00a0 This is the show where we dig deep into forgotten music on<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> archive.org<\/a><\/strong>). Expect all sorts of everything (and more).<\/p>\n<p>More on <strong>Skybird Telegraph &amp; Telephone Co<\/strong>. below:<\/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\/yktA4sO-Rfw?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 us at 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>FastRadioBurst23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, here&#8217;s more about what the Imaginary Stations crew will be sending up to the ionosphere this week. On Saturday 25th October 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and then again on Sunday 26th October 2025 at 0900\/1300 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and at 2100 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 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":[10918,7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,10066,10255,61],"class_list":["post-64305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-ancient-analogue-archive","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gJb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64436,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/more-of-those-magic-numbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":64305,"position":0},"title":"More of those magic numbers","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"November 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, here's what Imaginary Stations crew are putting on air next week. There'll be another telephone tribute via shortwaveradio.de called Skybird Telegraph & Telephone Co. 3 on Saturday 8th November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0and then again on Sunday 9th November 2025 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC\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\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Radio-International-November-25.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/more-international-shortwave-radio-sounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":64305,"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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