{"id":18242,"date":"2016-04-22T07:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18242"},"modified":"2016-04-22T07:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T11:24:56","slug":"cold-war-spy-radio-videos-of-the-fs-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/cold-war-spy-radio-videos-of-the-fs-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold War Spy Radio: Videos of the FS-5000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18487\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio.jpg\" alt=\"FS-5000-Spy-Radio\" width=\"848\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio.jpg 848w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FS-5000-Spy-Radio-500x235.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to Guy Atkin&#8217;s recent post, <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/psst-buddy-wanna-buy-a-spy-radio\/\">Psst, Buddy! Wanna Buy a Spy Radio?<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cipherguerrilla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@Cipherguerrilla<\/a> comments via Twitter with the following videos of the FS-5000:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWLingDotCom\">@SWLingDotCom<\/a> Here is a nice video assembly of that unit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wPVdatAVfN\">https:\/\/t.co\/wPVdatAVfN<\/a> and a live demo <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BatIOT7bmf\">https:\/\/t.co\/BatIOT7bmf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cipherguerrilla (@cipherguerrilla) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cipherguerrilla\/status\/719673691416625154\">April 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SclDz5AfUy8\" target=\"_blank\">here to watch the FS-5000 being unpacked and assembled<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CwbehXO6dPY\" target=\"_blank\">here to watch the FS-5000 in operation<\/a>. I&#8217;ve also embedded both videos below.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing these videos,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cipherguerrilla?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">@Cipherguerrilla<\/a>! The FS-5000 is certainly a fascinating purpose-built radio. \u00a0I&#8217;d love to have one.<\/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\/SclDz5AfUy8?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><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\/CwbehXO6dPY?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>In response to Guy Atkin&#8217;s recent post, Psst, Buddy! Wanna Buy a Spy Radio?, @Cipherguerrilla comments via Twitter with the following videos of the FS-5000: @SWLingDotCom Here is a nice video assembly of that unit https:\/\/t.co\/wPVdatAVfN and a live demo https:\/\/t.co\/BatIOT7bmf \u2014 Cipherguerrilla (@cipherguerrilla) April 11, 2016 Click here to watch the FS-5000 being unpacked [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,26,43,304],"tags":[5005,5004,752,5003,5006,5007],"class_list":["post-18242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","tag-aeg-telefunken","tag-aeg-telefunken-fs-5000","tag-cold-war","tag-fs-5000","tag-fs-5000-cold-war-spy-radio","tag-spy-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Ke","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18222,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/psst-buddy-wanna-buy-a-spy-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":18242,"position":0},"title":"Psst, Buddy! 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