{"id":64360,"date":"2025-10-29T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64360"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T18:37:50","slug":"we-love-you-telephone-thing-listening-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/we-love-you-telephone-thing-listening-in\/","title":{"rendered":"We love you telephone thing, listening in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64368\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Skybird-Telegraph-Telephone-Co._Shortwave-Gold-NOV-1-2025_FLYER-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, here&#8217;s what Imaginary Stations crew will sending up into the atmosphere next week. There&#8217;ll be another telephone tribute via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> called <strong>Skybird Telegraph &amp; Telephone Co. 2 <\/strong>on <strong>Saturday 1st November 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 2nd November 2025<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1400\/2200 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>6160 kHz.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Expect all sort of phone related tunes, an interview with a telephone answering machine, a report about the <span data-dobid=\"hdw\">furthest<\/span> tin can telephone call ever, dialing tones from all around the world and the all-time top 10 of missed calls, all subject to availability of course and if there&#8217;s any snow on those telegraph wires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fab fact:<\/strong> By the way do you know why the telephone is sometimes known as &#8220;The blower&#8221;? <span class=\"q-box qu-userSelect--text\">Early telephone handsets and local exchange apparatus used to produce audible &#8220;blowing&#8221; noises (clicks and hums and the suction-like sound of magneto generators). Wonderful!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Get connected and tune in for more telegraph and telephone madness!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64369\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2268\" height=\"2268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25.jpg 2268w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/KBIN-November-25-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2268px) 100vw, 2268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Wednesday 5th November 2025 <\/strong>at<strong> 0300 UTC <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI <\/a><\/strong>we bring you another <strong>KBIN<\/strong>. The show is some recycled radio including mixes from some of our Imaginary Stations favourite shows so tune in and catch yourself another great value for money transmission.<\/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\" title=\"YouTube video 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 what Imaginary Stations crew will sending up into the atmosphere next week. There&#8217;ll be another telephone tribute via shortwaveradio.de called Skybird Telegraph &amp; Telephone Co. 2 on Saturday 1st November 2025 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0and then again on Sunday 2nd November 2025 at 1000\/1400\/2200 hrs 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,9775,10066,10255,10944,61],"class_list":["post-64360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-kbin","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-skybird-telegraph-telephone-co-2","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gK4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64436,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/more-of-those-magic-numbers\/","url_meta":{"origin":64360,"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. 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