{"id":40380,"date":"2019-10-27T07:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40380"},"modified":"2019-10-27T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T11:06:50","slug":"eifeler-radiotage-to-broadcast-from-cold-war-bunker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/eifeler-radiotage-to-broadcast-from-cold-war-bunker\/","title":{"rendered":"Eifeler Radiotage to broadcast from Cold War bunker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40381\" style=\"width: 656px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Eifeler-Radiotage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40381\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Eifeler-Radiotage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"646\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Eifeler-Radiotage.jpg 646w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Eifeler-Radiotage-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Eifeler-Radiotage-624x611.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo source: Eifeler Radiotage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, G\u00e9rard Koopal, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This might be interesting for your followers in Europe and especially for those living in or nearby Germany.<\/p>\n<p>On the 9th and 10th of November, the Eifeler Radiotage are to start transmitting in German from a Cold War bunker in Germany. There is also a possibility to visit the location (Kall Krekel). Below is a link to their homepage where you can also find a few videos from the Cold War radio room which is still functional and in use.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eifeler-radiotage.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.eifeler-radiotage.de\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for the tip, G\u00e9rard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, G\u00e9rard Koopal, who writes: This might be interesting for your followers in Europe and especially for those living in or nearby Germany. On the 9th and 10th of November, the Eifeler Radiotage are to start transmitting in German from a Cold War bunker in Germany. There is also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,305,288],"tags":[752,8093,8092],"class_list":["post-40380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-cold-war","tag-eifeler-radiotage","tag-gerard-koopal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-avi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67330,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/radio-time-travel-eifeler-radiotage-returns-to-shortwave-october-16-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":40380,"position":0},"title":"Radio Time Travel: Eifeler Radiotage Returns to Shortwave October 16, 2026","author":"Thomas","date":"October 13, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor G\u00e9rard Koopal who notes that the Eifeler Radiotage will return to the airwaves October 16\u201318, 2026, with three days of special programming from the Eifel region of Germany. 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