{"id":66255,"date":"2026-06-03T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66255"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:11:28","slug":"more-250-year-celebrations-and-whfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/more-250-year-celebrations-and-whfm\/","title":{"rendered":"More 250 year celebrations and WHFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66256\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-2026-SG-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Radio-250_2-June-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 the ionosphere this week.<\/p>\n<p>We have the second episode of <b>Radio 250<\/b> via <a href=\"https:\/\/shortwavegold.org\/\"><b>Shortwave Gold<\/b><\/a>, which is full with all sorts of genres of music celebrating and bringing you more of a musical history lesson over the shortwaves. The schedule for the show is on <b>Saturday 6th June <\/b>at <b>1100 hrs UTC<\/b> on <b>6160 kHz <\/b>and then again on <b>Sunday 7th June<\/b>\u00a0at <b>1300 UTC <\/b>on <b>6160 kHz <\/b>and <b>2000 hrs <\/b>on<b> 3975 kHz\/6160 kHz. <\/b>Tune in for another salute to the United States of America!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66257\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026.jpg 792w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Skybird-Folk-Country-Radio-June-2026-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also on <strong>Wednesday June 10th<\/strong> at <strong>2000 UTC<\/strong> on <strong>3975 kHz\/6160 kHz<\/strong> we bring you<strong> Skybird Folk &amp; Country Radio<\/strong> (repeated on June 17th). If you&#8217;re into both those genres you are going to love this show! There&#8217;s a large saddlebag&#8217;s worth of electric and acoustic tunes for your listening delight. We welcome listeners to wear cowboy boots and denim for this special transmission<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66260\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2-787x1024.jpg 787w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2-768x999.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WHFM-promo-2-624x811.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also on <strong>Wednesday 10th June 2026, <\/strong>at<strong> 0200 UTC <\/strong>on <strong>9395 kHz <\/strong>on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">WRM<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrmi.net\/\">I<\/a><\/strong> we have <strong>WHFM \u2013 Herman&#8217;s Radio and Record Room.<\/strong> This is the second in a series of programmes recorded by<strong> DJ Frederick Moe<\/strong> in memory of his father Herman (1919-2001) and feature mid-century sounds including country, jazz, folk and easy listening.<\/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\/3ybCxcTjidU?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 week. We have the second episode of Radio 250 via Shortwave Gold, which is full with all sorts of genres of music celebrating and bringing you more of a musical history lesson over the shortwaves. The [&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":[7929,9110,7928,9918,10065,11009,10255,11074,11130,61],"class_list":["post-66255","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-imaginary-stations","tag-justin-patrick-moore","tag-marc-from-belgium","tag-shortwave-gold","tag-skybird-folk-country-radio","tag-whfm","tag-wrmi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-heD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66135,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/celebrating-250-years-and-whfm\/","url_meta":{"origin":66255,"position":0},"title":"Celebrating 250 years and WHFM","author":"Fastradioburst23","date":"May 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hi to all SWLing Post community. 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