{"id":65203,"date":"2026-01-21T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65203"},"modified":"2026-01-18T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:48:09","slug":"we-do-love-imaginary-stations-and-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/we-do-love-imaginary-stations-and-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"We do love imaginary stations and Ohio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65205\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_Shortwave-Gold-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WLIS_2_-January_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 (We Love Imaginary Stations 2)<\/strong> through the ether this week via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/shortwaveradio.de\/\">shortwaveradio.de<\/a><\/strong> on <strong>Saturday 25th January 2026 <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong>. Then there&#8217;s the second transmission on <strong>Sunday 26th 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>As the first programme a couple of weeks ago, the show is a homage to imaginary, <span data-dobid=\"hdw\">fictitious or fabricated <\/span>radio stations that have appeared in films, books and music. Use your shortwave radio or an online SDR to tune into radio stations that may or may not exist. It&#8217;s going to be an interesting show so tune in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65204\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1194\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo.jpg 1194w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/OHIO-flyer-with-IS-logo-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1194px) 100vw, 1194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on <strong>Wednesday 28<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong> 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>OHIO<\/strong>. We&#8217;re talking about songs about Ohio. Could Crosby, Stills, Nash &amp; Young be in there? Randy Newman? And REM? Who knows, you have to tune in and find out, but it will be a great show no matter what.<\/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, 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. Then there&#8217;s the second transmission on Sunday 26th January 2026 at 1000\/1400 hrs UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz and (the new time [&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":[7929,9110,7928,11010,9918,10065,11009,11023,10066,10255,11013,11024,61],"class_list":["post-65203","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-ohio","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-wlis","tag-wlis2","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gXF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65080,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/imagination-and-strange-cloud-formations\/","url_meta":{"origin":65203,"position":0},"title":"Imagination and strange cloud formations","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"January 7, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Greetings all SWLing Post community, Imaginary Stations bring you WLIS (We love Imaginary Stations). 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