{"id":65080,"date":"2026-01-07T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65080"},"modified":"2026-01-03T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:46:09","slug":"imagination-and-strange-cloud-formations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/imagination-and-strange-cloud-formations\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagination and strange cloud formations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65081\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_January-10_11-Shortwave-Gold-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations bring you <strong>WLIS<\/strong> (We love Imaginary Stations). It&#8217;s a homage to imaginary, <span data-dobid=\"hdw\">fictitious or fabricated <\/span>radio stations that have appeared in films, books and music. Remember Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s EXP, Wolfman Jack on XERB, Harry Chapin&#8217;s WOLD, the many shows on GTA and others?<\/p>\n<p>The first show is via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 10th January 2026 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC\u00a0<\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 11th 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><\/p>\n<p>Use your shortwave radio or an online SDR to tune into those radio stations that may or may not exist. If you love (fictional or non-fictional) radio, you&#8217;ll love our show!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65082\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2268\" height=\"2252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26.jpg 2268w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-768x763.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-1536x1525.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-2048x2034.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WNTR-The-weather-channel-Jan-2-26-624x620.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2268px) 100vw, 2268px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on <strong>Wednesday 14th January 2026 <\/strong>at<strong> 0300 UTC on 9395 kHz <\/strong>via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI <\/a><\/strong>we bring you <strong>The Weather Channel, <\/strong>a programme which features the joys of meteorology. So have your weather vane wired up as your antenna and keep a look out for strange cloud formations while tuning into\u00a0<strong>The Weather Channel.<\/strong><\/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\/zsZSzRRGm8g?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 bring you WLIS (We love Imaginary Stations). It&#8217;s a homage to imaginary, fictitious or fabricated radio stations that have appeared in films, books and music. Remember Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s EXP, Wolfman Jack on XERB, Harry Chapin&#8217;s WOLD, the many shows on GTA and others? The first show is via [&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":[7929,9110,7928,11010,9918,10065,11009,10066,10255,10743,11014,11013,61],"class_list":["post-65080","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-the-weather-channel","tag-we-love-imaginary-stations","tag-wlis","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gVG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/we-do-love-imaginary-stations-and-ohio\/","url_meta":{"origin":65080,"position":0},"title":"We do love imaginary stations and Ohio!","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"January 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations bring you WLIS (We Love Imaginary Stations 2) through the ether this week via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 25th January 2026 at 1200 hrs UTC. 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