{"id":66058,"date":"2026-05-13T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66058"},"modified":"2026-05-11T02:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:00:21","slug":"jewels-soul-and-the-weather-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/jewels-soul-and-the-weather-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewels, soul and the weather channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66065\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jewel-May-2026-SG-copy-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 the<strong> Imaginary Stations<\/strong> crew will be sending out into the ionosphere and via those groundwaves this coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortwaveradio.de\/\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">Shortwave Gold<\/b><\/a>, we have a transmission called <strong>JEWEL<\/strong> featuring an hour special on Jewel Records, from Cincinnati ran by Rusty York (more on the label <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/label\/234001-Jewel-Records-4?redirected=true\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>). The show is on <strong>Saturday 16th May <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then repeated on <strong>Sunday 17th May <\/strong>at <strong>0900\/1300 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2000 hrs <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz. <\/strong>Tune in for some musical education!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66067\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-MaySG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And then on <b data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"79\">Monday, May 18th at 20:00 UTC<\/b> also via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortwaveradio.de\/\"><b data-path-to-node=\"4,0\" data-index-in-node=\"10\">Shortwave Gold<\/b><\/a> we&#8217;ve got part 2 of <b data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"137\">&#8220;Skybird Soul on Shortwave&#8221;<\/b> on <b data-path-to-node=\"2,0\" data-index-in-node=\"168\">3975 kHz and 6160 kHz<\/b>. Loads of cracking soul and related type genres for a Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Weather-Channel_May-2026_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66068\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Weather-Channel_May-2026_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Weather-Channel_May-2026_.jpg 571w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Weather-Channel_May-2026_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Weather-Channel_May-2026_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on <strong data-path-to-node=\"12,0\" data-index-in-node=\"84\">Wednesday, May 20th (0200 UTC on 9395 kHz)<\/strong> via <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRMI,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0we bring you a meteorology special with <strong>The Weather Channel<\/strong>. So, get the barometer and thermometer at the ready and keep an umbrella at hand just in case and tune in for some forecasting fun.<\/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 <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 the Imaginary Stations crew will be sending out into the ionosphere and via those groundwaves this coming week. Thanks to Shortwave Gold, we have a transmission called JEWEL featuring an hour special on Jewel Records, from Cincinnati ran by Rusty York (more on the label [&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":[7929,11085,9110,11084,7928,9918,11117,10065,11009,11086,10066,10255,1478,10272,11087,11089,11088,10743,61,11083],"class_list":["post-66058","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-jewel","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-northen-soul","tag-one-deck-pete","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-shortwave-listening","tag-skybird-radio-international","tag-soul","tag-soul-music","tag-soul-on-shortwave","tag-the-weather-channel","tag-wrmi","tag-wwls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hbs","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65875,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/we-love-shortwave-drm-transmissions-and-vermont\/","url_meta":{"origin":66058,"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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Here's news of what Imaginary Stations will be bringing to the ionosphere this week. Thanks to Shortwave Gold, we have a transmission called WAIR - Always Independent Radio Featuring the sounds of indie, alternative and post -punk goodness. The show is on Saturday 9th\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\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WAIR-May-Shortwave-Gold_1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":62578,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/whatever-the-weather\/","url_meta":{"origin":66058,"position":3},"title":"Whatever the weather","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 16, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all of the SWLing community worldwide. 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