{"id":64758,"date":"2025-12-03T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64758"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:59:54","slug":"pirate-ships-return-to-the-shortwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/pirate-ships-return-to-the-shortwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate ships return to the shortwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64759\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, here&#8217;s what the Imaginary Stations crew are putting out into the Ionosphere next week. We love the Pirate Radio ships here at Imaginary Stations, so we have a tribute to them and to great lakes everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>We have two shows in the <strong>Great Lakes Pirate Radio Ships<\/strong> series, the first via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 6th December 2025 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC\u00a0<\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 7th December 2025<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1400 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>3975 kHz. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re celebrating the spirit and sound of those old-time offshore stations, bringing the excitement of radio from the legendary Great Lakes straight to your shortwave receiver. Expect all sorts of tunes about large expanses of water, ships, the dropping of boat anchors and other nautical radio references. Tune in and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-64760\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2268\" height=\"2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI.jpg 2268w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-1536x1525.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-2048x2034.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Great-Lakes-Pirate-Radio-Ships_Dec_WRMI-624x620.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2268px) 100vw, 2268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have the second instalment on <strong>Wednesday 10th December 2025 <\/strong>at<strong> 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a><\/strong>. Expect a different show in the same vein. Tune in and turn on.<\/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\/fwQpZV2OCRA?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 the Imaginary Stations crew are putting out into the Ionosphere next week. We love the Pirate Radio ships here at Imaginary Stations, so we have a tribute to them and to great lakes everywhere. We have two shows in the Great Lakes Pirate Radio Ships series, the first [&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":[7929,9110,7928,10980,9918,10065,10066,10255,61],"class_list":["post-64758","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-great-lakes-pirate-radio-ships","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-gQu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62786,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/more-international-shortwave-radio-sounds\/","url_meta":{"origin":64758,"position":0},"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. This week we bring you more programmes featuring the international onshore\/offshore pirate radio sounds of Skybird Radio International. Get your shortwave radio ready for an audio journey on Saturday 10th May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and\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\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Skybird-Radio-Int_14th-May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62578,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/whatever-the-weather\/","url_meta":{"origin":64758,"position":1},"title":"Whatever the weather","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all of the SWLing community worldwide. 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This week coming, Imaginary Stations hoist the sails on the pirate ship Skybird again and brings you another audio voyage in the Free Radio Skybird series and it's the third and final planned broadcast of the station\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\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Radio-Ace-March-2025.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62726,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/destination-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":64758,"position":3},"title":"Destination Earth","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Good day all SWLing Post readers from us here at Imaginary Stations. 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It goes out on Saturday 3rd May 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC\u00a0on\u00a06160 kHz and\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\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Skybird-Radio-Int_May-2024_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64884,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/even-the-ionosphere-has-tinsel-on-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":64758,"position":4},"title":"Even the ionosphere has tinsel on it","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"December 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, here's more Imaginary Stations news for the holiday season. 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