I don’t remember a whole lot about the 1982 elections. My dad was stationed in Germany. If the weather cooperated, we could pick up the BBC, which is how we were able to get news about the Falklands War and some of the worldwide news events, but they rarely said anything about US politics.
If you were close enough to Frankfurt, Kaiserslautern, Stuttgart or Munich, you might have been able to get the Armed Forces Network on AM radio. However, in 1985, I tuned in while I was over there and they were using National Public Radio as their news service, which wouldn’t have helped you much.
At night, when I was there in the early 1970’s, I could sometimes hear German-language broadcasts on the Deutschlandsender (Radio Germany) out of the Soviet zone, which gave a rather interesting perspective on the news. I could also get English-language news broadcasts over Radio Luxembourg and was able to keep up on the fighting going on in Northern Ireland.