{"id":65051,"date":"2025-12-31T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65051"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:57:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:57:53","slug":"tis-the-season-before-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/tis-the-season-before-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis the season before spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65052\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-3rd_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations start the new year with the final episodes of<strong> WNTR<\/strong>. The first is via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 3rd January 2026 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC\u00a0<\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 4th January 2026<\/strong> at <strong>1000\/1400 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz<\/strong> and <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and (the new time of) <strong>2100 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>3975 kHz. <\/strong>Winter vibes abound as per with the show, and the temperature outside may only a few degrees, but we will be transmitting as much winter warmth as we can!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65053\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the final instalment is on <strong>Wednesday 7th January 2026 <\/strong>at<strong> 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI<\/a><\/strong>. Spring may be a good few weeks away, but this&#8217;ll be the end of <strong>WNTR<\/strong> for now.<\/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\/W1oKXMxbYFs?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, Imaginary Stations start the new year with the final episodes of WNTR. The first is via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 3rd January 2026 at 1200 hrs UTC\u00a0and then again on Sunday 4th January 2026 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and (the new time of) 2100 UTC [&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":[7929,9110,7928,11010,9918,10065,11009,10066,10255,11004,61],"class_list":["post-65051","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-gerry-hectic","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wntr","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gVd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65003,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/you-dont-want-to-be-left-out-in-the-cold\/","url_meta":{"origin":65051,"position":0},"title":"You don&#8217;t want to be left out in the cold!","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"December 24, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, here's more Imaginary Stations WNTR shows for the festive season just when you're fed up with what's on Christmas TV. 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