{"id":17355,"date":"2016-02-16T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=17355"},"modified":"2016-02-14T07:48:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T11:48:29","slug":"video-this-is-radio-free-europe-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/video-this-is-radio-free-europe-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: This Is Radio Free Europe (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RFE-Image.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17356\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RFE-Image.jpg\" alt=\"RFE-Image\" width=\"626\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RFE-Image.jpg 626w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RFE-Image-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/RFE-Image-433x300.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for a little Cold War era nostalgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jyqEB5Q6Xg\" target=\"_blank\">check out this video<\/a> produced by Radio Free Europe in 1964. One of the things I found most fascinating was seeing the number of rack-mounted Hammarlund SP-600s (and other benchmark receivers) at the RFE monitoring station near Munich.<\/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\/_jyqEB5Q6Xg?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in the mood for a little Cold War era nostalgia, check out this video produced by Radio Free Europe in 1964. One of the things I found most fascinating was seeing the number of rack-mounted Hammarlund SP-600s (and other benchmark receivers) at the RFE monitoring station near Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[56,960,3,305,288,43,304],"tags":[752,3067,1160,1094,4093],"class_list":["post-17355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-cold-war","tag-cold-war-radio","tag-radio-free-europe","tag-rfe","tag-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4vV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20400,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/rfe-and-the-1956-hungarian-revolution-part-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":17355,"position":0},"title":"RFE and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Part 2)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Richard Cummings of the website, Cold War Radio Vignettes, who writes: [F]or your weekend reading pleasure, Part Two, in which I briefly examine the background to and excerpts from the RFE\u00a0controversial broadcasts: https:\/\/coldwarradios.blogspot.de\/2016\/08\/radio-free-europe-and-1956-hungarian_5.html Many thanks for sharing, Richard!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"HalliDial","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-1024x400.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-1024x400.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/HalliDial-1024x400.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":26629,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/cold-war-broadcasting-two-articles-feature-rfe-radio-liberty\/","url_meta":{"origin":17355,"position":1},"title":"Cold War Broadcasting: Two articles feature RFE &#038; Radio Liberty","author":"Thomas","date":"June 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Andrea Borgnino, who shares the following article from the website Journalism Is Not A Crime: From Propaganda to Journalism: How Radio Free Europe Pierced the Iron Curtain The end of the Second World War signaled the beginning of an information war in Europe. 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Richard also notes that he recently published a two-part series on RFE and Christmas on his blog, Cold War Radio Vignettes. Christmas and Radio Free Europe, Part One: Santa Claus, Freedom Girl\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/RFE-Christmas-Card-1951.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20321,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/rfe-and-the-1956-hungarian-revolution-part-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":17355,"position":3},"title":"RFE and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Part 1)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Richard Cummings of the website, Cold War Radio Vignettes, who notes that he has posted a new article\u00a0about Radio Free Europe and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Part 1). 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