{"id":65821,"date":"2026-04-22T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65821"},"modified":"2026-04-19T15:49:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:49:44","slug":"shortwave-with-a-bit-of-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/shortwave-with-a-bit-of-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave with a bit of Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65822\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-Shortwave-Gold-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here&#8217;s news of what <strong>Imaginary Stations<\/strong> will be bringing to the ionosphere this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the services of <a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">Shortwave Gold<\/span><\/strong><\/a> we have a few programmes this week coming.\u00a0The first show is <strong>WWLS &#8211; &#8220;We Love Shortwave&#8221;<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a show all about what we all love, shortwave radio! Standby for sounds of the shortwave, music containing shortwave samples and a live debut of Twelve Mega Hurts, the ham radio choir from Cleveland (*subject to availability and atmospheric conditions).<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the show is on <strong>Saturday 25th April <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 26th April<\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>0900\/1300 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2000 hrs <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz. <\/strong>Get your (shortwave) set set, and tune in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65825\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Soul-on-Shortwave-APRIL-SG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on <strong>Monday 27th April<\/strong> (and repeated on May 4th) <strong>at 20:00 UTC <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz, <\/strong>we have a new Monday evening slot with a special called <strong>&#8220;Skybird Soul on Shortwave&#8221;<\/strong>. Expect all sorts of great soul tunes from old to new, soul classics and lots of &#8220;one&#8217;s that got away&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65823\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WWLS-APRIL-WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s an extra hour of<strong> WWLS &#8211; &#8220;We Love Shortwave&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">WRMI<\/span><\/strong><\/a> on <strong>Wednesday 29th April 2026 <\/strong>at<strong> 0200 UTC on 9395 kHz. <\/strong>Same subject as the shows on Shortwave Gold but different content.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/kmtsradio\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">here<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FastRadioBurst23<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi to all SWLing Post community. Here&#8217;s news of what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this weekend. Thanks to the services of Shortwave Gold we have a few programmes this week coming.\u00a0The first show is WWLS &#8211; &#8220;We Love Shortwave&#8221;. It&#8217;s a show all about what we all love, shortwave radio! Standby [&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_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":[7929,11085,9110,11084,7928,9918,10065,11009,11086,10066,10255,1478,11087,11089,11088,61,11083],"class_list":["post-65821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-dj-frederick","tag-do-i-love-you","tag-fastradioburst23","tag-frank-wilson","tag-free-radio-skybird","tag-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-northen-soul","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-shortwave-listening","tag-soul","tag-soul-music","tag-soul-on-shortwave","tag-wrmi","tag-wwls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h7D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65875,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-love-shortwave-drm-transmissions-and-vermont\/","url_meta":{"origin":65821,"position":0},"title":"We love shortwave, DRM transmissions and Vermont","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 29, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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