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Mobile Transmitter Station
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"Mobile Transmitter Station", 1965; HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26; Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files; General Records; Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute; Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26
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Mobile Transmitter Station
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ca. 1965
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English (Original)
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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.
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A bird's-eye view of a compound fenced with barbed wire. The photo is taken from high up on an antenna tower. On the ground there are several trailers, tool sheds, some vehicles. Around the compound is barren fields. In the left upper corner there is a stretch of a water channel and a farm building. ORIGINAL CAPTION: Radio Free Europe's Mobile Transmitter Installation near Cham, Germany, a few miles from the Czechoslovak-German border. The station, which has 50,000 Watts, is set up to circumvent communist jamming of Radio Free Europe Broadcasts to five countries behind the Iron Curtain.
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254 x 207 mm ; b&w
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HU OSA 300Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
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HU OSA 300-1-8Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3Archival photo box #3
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/1Radio Free Europe Broadcasting Antenna in Holzkirchen
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/25Four Transmitter Antennae
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26Mobile Transmitter Station
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/27Broadcasting Tower
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/113Typewritten Page
HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26
Mobile Transmitter Station
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"Mobile Transmitter Station", 1965; HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26; Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files; General Records; Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute; Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26
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Title
Mobile Transmitter Station
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Date(s)
ca. 1965
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Description Level
Item
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Record Type
Still Image
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Language
English (Original)
General Information
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.
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Not Restricted
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photograph
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Contents Summary
A bird's-eye view of a compound fenced with barbed wire. The photo is taken from high up on an antenna tower. On the ground there are several trailers, tool sheds, some vehicles. Around the compound is barren fields. In the left upper corner there is a stretch of a water channel and a farm building. ORIGINAL CAPTION: Radio Free Europe's Mobile Transmitter Installation near Cham, Germany, a few miles from the Czechoslovak-German border. The station, which has 50,000 Watts, is set up to circumvent communist jamming of Radio Free Europe Broadcasts to five countries behind the Iron Curtain.
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254 x 207 mm ; b&w
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HU OSA 300Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
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HU OSA 300-1General Records
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HU OSA 300-1-8Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3Archival photo box #3
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/1Radio Free Europe Broadcasting Antenna in Holzkirchen
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/25Four Transmitter Antennae
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/26Mobile Transmitter Station
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/27Broadcasting Tower
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HU OSA 300-1-8:3/113Typewritten Page