Radio: OE3AH

When the German army crossed the Austrian border last March, incorporated Austria into the Reich, OE3AH sat at his radio apparatus in Schloss Sonnberg filling his log with records of the short-wave contacts he was making for a high score in an international DX contest. A week after the contest closed, a London Exchange Telegraph dispatch reported that Archduke Anton von Habsburg, brother-in-law of Rumania’s King Carol, had been arrested and sent to a concentration camp because of the discovery of a “secret radio station” in his home. That news (despite prompt newspaper denials) was published in the June QST, American Radio Relay League’s official publication, because Archduke Anton is OE3AH.

Last week in the September QST was published a letter from Archduke Anton, denying that he had ever been arrested, referring to the Anschluss only as “the great event.” Wrote Archduke Anton: “The incorporation of the Austrian amateurs into the D. A. S. D. was accomplished in the friendliest manner and with great consideration towards us. I myself, as ex-president of the Oe. V. S. V., have been intrusted with the reorganization of the ex-Oe hams and have been named ‘Landes Verbandsführer der Donaulande’ that is to say: ‘Leader of the association of the Danube district.’ “