General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/14

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 #1 / No. 14

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-014

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_014

Date

1970

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

The photo is taken from above. Three men in office clothes wearing headsets are sitting at a row of monitoring stations. They are working on large sheets of charts are using a bunch of pencils, probably of different colors. A fourth man in laboratory gown is sitting at a desk and works on a large sheet with a ruler. There are more charts on the wall, and desk lamps on top of the stations, and a typewriter on a side table. The photo is a zoom-out of photograph 300-1-8:1/5
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Radio Free Europe's Special Technical Monitoring Section, Munich, West Germany. This monitor makes a complete sweep of three shortwave bands in thirty minutes out of every hour recording the frequency, language, time of day and station of every broadcaster. The subsequent chart is used to plot broadcast channels and to locate free channels.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

chart, Cold War, machine, man, monitoring, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, typewriter