{"id":65536,"date":"2026-03-11T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65536"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:58:08","slug":"shelfmarks-and-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/shelfmarks-and-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Shelfmarks and shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65537\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-14-th-March-2026_SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community. Imaginary Stations bring you a couple of new episodes of<strong> The Shortwave Music Library. <\/strong>The first is on <strong>Saturday 14th March <\/strong>at <strong>1200 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975\/6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 15th March<\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>1000\/1400 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>3975\/6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2100 hrs <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz <\/strong>(via the services of<a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"><strong> Shortwave Gold<\/strong><\/a>). Chief librarians DJ Frederick and DJ Marc sort through those shortwave shelves (and the dusty store cupboard) and pick out some wonderful music. Tune in your radio or online SDR next weekend and see what they pull out from the catalogues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65538\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Shortwave-Radio-Library-Wednesday-18th-2026_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both librarians will again be on late duty via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong>WRMI<\/strong><\/a> for the second programme on <strong>Wednesday 18<sup>th<\/sup> March 2026 <\/strong>at<strong> 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz. <\/strong>They will be on hand to do a deeper dive into their databases and those fiddly microfiche machines that needs a steady hand. Listen in again and renew your interest in the library. We here at Imaginary Stations recommend both shows without reservation!<\/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\/21WqEKVAs0c?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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastRadioBurst23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all SWLing Post community. Imaginary Stations bring you a couple of new episodes of The Shortwave Music Library. 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 kHz (via the services of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3194,3,43,1167],"tags":[7929,10669,9110,7928,9918,10065,11009,10066,10255,10083],"class_list":["post-65536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-downbeat-on-shortwave","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-shortwave-music-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h32","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66439,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/more-jamming-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":65536,"position":0},"title":"More jamming on shortwave","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"June 24, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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