For those who want to see a thousand reasons
other than the nasty spy scenario as to why a
Nazi emblemed radio transmitter was hidden in
a difficult to access crawl space in a house
overlooking a harbor with a view which may
have provided the Axis with valuable info,
are we to assume that the radio operator,
encumbered with an apparently Germanic
surname actually crawled under the house
after the war to use his radio which he'd
acquired as a curio? That fails the duck test
miserably. The antenna is the key to the
issue, it seems to me. Of course, a
fastidious owner may not have liked the idea
of an antenna wire marring the interior or
the exterior of the house and was an
agoraphobic who kept the attic window shade
pulled when up there to avoid the view.

Sounds like a sleeper agent. While the US
vigorously pursued Axis agents and
triangulated signal locations, very short
signals at very irregular intervals were
notoriously difficult to locate. If the guy
was a sleeper, no outgoing transmissions were
detected because he was getting incoming
only. It's a shame that he couldn't have been
located during the war and given an
opportunity to explain his behavior.

Lyle