{"id":49333,"date":"2021-06-23T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=49333"},"modified":"2021-06-21T06:35:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T10:35:22","slug":"comrade-africa-a-historic-look-at-the-gdrs-cold-war-era-shortwave-broadcasts-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/comrade-africa-a-historic-look-at-the-gdrs-cold-war-era-shortwave-broadcasts-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrade Africa: A historic look at the GDR\u2019s Cold War era shortwave broadcasts to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ulis (K3LU)<\/a>, who shares the following note via his Twitter feed:<\/p>\n

\u201cComrade Africa\u201d – a historic look at the GDR\u2019s (Radio Berlin International) Cold War era shortwave broadcasts to Africa via the BBC World Service:<\/strong><\/p>\nhttps:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/6\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/https\/vpid\/p07zc40r.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Click here to listen to the documentary at the BBC World Service.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ulis (K3LU), who shares the following note via his Twitter feed: \u201cComrade Africa\u201d – a historic look at the GDR\u2019s (Radio Berlin International) Cold War era shortwave broadcasts to Africa via the BBC World Service: https:\/\/open.live.bbc.co.uk\/mediaselector\/6\/redir\/version\/2.0\/mediaset\/audio-nondrm-download\/proto\/https\/vpid\/p07zc40r.mp3 Click here to listen to the documentary at the BBC World Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[960,3,43],"tags":[752,9331,3523,3524,4082,7075],"class_list":["post-49333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cold-war","tag-gdr","tag-radio-berlin-international","tag-rbi","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-ulis-fleming-k3lu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cPH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44395,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/lra36-radio-nacional-arcangel-san-gabriel-test-broadcasts-july-18-and-july-25-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":49333,"position":0},"title":"LRA36: Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriel test broadcasts July 18 and July 25, 2020","author":"Thomas","date":"July 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Ulis (K3LU) and Harald (DL1AX) who note that Radio Nacional Arc\u00e1ngel San Gabriel (LRA36) will broadcast tests again Saturday July 18th and July 25th, 2020, from 1700 to 2000 UTC on 15476 kHz USB. 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