General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:3/27

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #3 / No. 27

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_003-027

Legacy ID

rfe_architecture_027

Date

1965

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

An antenna tower encircled by barbed wire fencing. In the background there are several other antennae inside a second fence.

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
A Radio Free Europe broadcasting tower in Holzkirchen, West Germany, near RFE headquarters in Munich, is a part of a vast transmitter system that effectively beams RFE's programs to the 80 million captive people of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Each year the Communists spend more money in futile jamming attempts than RFE spends in its entire operation. In addition to RFE's powerful transmitters, the network outwits the Soviets' jamming attempts through the use of multiple frequencies for broadcasting each program.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Holzkirchen

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

antenna, broadcasting equipment, Cold War, jamming, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, transmission