{"id":66088,"date":"2026-05-20T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66088"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:11:48","slug":"mysteries-of-shortwave-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/mysteries-of-shortwave-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of shortwave and soul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66090\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WMMR-May-2026-SG-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 those shortwave transmitter sites this week coming.<\/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>WMMR &#8211; Mystery Mix Radio<\/strong>. As usual, the show has a theme that you the short-wave listener, will have to guess what it is. There\u2019ll be a special e-QSL for the lucky winner, and as ever, we will not give any clues away here (even on the flyer above), the clues are in the show. Tune in and play some guessing games via the shortwaves.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for the show is on <strong>Saturday 23rd May <\/strong>at <strong>1100 hrs UTC<\/strong> on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and then again on <strong>Sunday 24th May<\/strong>\u00a0at <strong>0900\/1300 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>6160 kHz <\/strong>and <strong>2000 hrs <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz. <\/strong>Hoist up your antenna and tune in!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66091\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Soul-on-Shortwave-2-REPEAT-MaySG-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then on <strong>Monday 25th May<\/strong> <strong>at 20:00 UTC <\/strong>on<strong> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz, <\/strong>we have the repeat of <strong>&#8220;Skybird Soul on Shortwave 2&#8221;<\/strong>. There\u2019s more wonderful examples of Soul and Soul inspired tunes on this special Monday night slot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66092\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"962\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI.jpg 962w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ancient-Analogue-Archive-May-_WRMI-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\"><strong>WRMI<\/strong><\/a> on <strong>Wednesday 27th May 2026 <\/strong>at<strong> 0200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>we have <strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Ancient Analogue Archive<\/strong>, where DJ Frederick selects and picks all sorts of genres from out of the archives. Tune in and be surprised yet again.<\/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\/vNhT_mFSumI?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 those shortwave transmitter sites this week coming. Thanks to the services of Shortwave Gold we have a few programmes this week coming.\u00a0The first show is WMMR &#8211; Mystery Mix Radio. As usual, the show has a theme that you [&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-66088","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-hbW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65821,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/shortwave-with-a-bit-of-soul\/","url_meta":{"origin":66088,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave with a bit of Soul","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"April 22, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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