{"id":65158,"date":"2026-01-14T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65158"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:16:01","slug":"a-first-class-service-with-some-warmth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/a-first-class-service-with-some-warmth\/","title":{"rendered":"A first class service with some warmth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65159\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-Shortwave-Gold-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/POST_January-17_18-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>POST (The Shortwave Postal Service)<\/strong> through the ether this week via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 17th January 2026 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>. Then there&#8217;s the second post on <strong>Sunday 18th 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>We&#8217;ll be pushing the (audio) envelope and be playing songs about stamps, post masters, postmen and women, and the humble post-box in all its free-standing glory (unless it is mounted into a wall). So put the imaginary overstuffed mailbag on your shoulder and listen to some sorted and possibly redirected tunes by the power of shortwave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65160\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WARM2026_Jan-21st_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on <strong>Wednesday 21st 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>WARM<\/strong>. It may be cold where you are now, but we at Imaginary Stations will be sitting in front of a roaring fire dreaming about the change in the seasons and that magical time when the sun comes out again and playing some tunes with warmth to cheer you up. Tune in and listen to tunes that raise the temperature.<\/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\/lRmBmFJvN4w?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 POST (The Shortwave Postal Service) through the ether this week via shortwaveradio.de on Saturday 17th January 2026 at 1200 hrs UTC. Then there&#8217;s the second post on Sunday 18th January 2026 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and (the new time of) [&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":[7929,9110,7928,11010,9918,10065,11009,10066,11021,10255,10645,61],"class_list":["post-65158","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-post","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-warm","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gWW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65203,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/we-do-love-imaginary-stations-and-ohio\/","url_meta":{"origin":65158,"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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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\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\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/WNTR_Jan-7th_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65536,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/shelfmarks-and-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":65158,"position":3},"title":"Shelfmarks and shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"March 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community. 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The first is on Saturday 14th March at 1200 hrs UTC on 3975\/6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 15th March\u00a0at 1000\/1400 UTC on 3975\/6160 kHz and 2100 hrs on 3975\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\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":65420,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/king-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":65158,"position":4},"title":"KING on shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"February 25, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community! 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