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This station used to be on the air in the 1970's on weekends on 6650 and 6425kHz.
Transmissions opened at 1130z, starting with several German beer drinking songs, 

followed by seven notes from the Communist anthem "Internationale". At 1200z,
A male announcer then read several names, each name was then repeated, followed
by "Achtung", and a series of 5FG groups, followed by "Ende".

Sometimes, cryptic messages such as "Our hen has laid one egg" or "The sunshine has 
faded" were read instead of numbers. 

The transmission closed with "Auf wiedesehen"

A Monday/Friday evening schedule also existed.

 

Technical glitches were frequent, such as tapes being rewound before start time, 
loud clicks from toggle switches in the "studio", the wrong music being played, then 
stopped, and sounds of fumbling with tapes being the correct songs appeared, even 
sometimes coughs and sneezes, etc.
Signal strength and audio quality were reported as being excellent.

The operation was believed to be tied in to that of pirate radio station "Radio Northsea 
International", which was backed by the DDR.