Update - Another WWII Clandestine Radio

摘要

Many readers wrote to me after they read my CQ article on the clandestine radios of WWII (July 2015). John Swartz, WA9AQN, told me about a secretly-built radio from the Netherlands he had seen in St. Louis about 15 years ago. John and his wife, a Dutch language translator, ran into Dick and Anja Lodge, a husband-and-wife translator team, at a conference in that city. At one point, their conversation turned to radio, not surprisingly considering John was a ham, whereupon Anja mentioned a radio her parents owned during WWII in the Netherlands. The next day she brought it to show to John. Anja passed away in 2013, but I have been able to contact her husband Dick and, with his tenacious help, I was able to put together the following story.