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Crystal Radio Sets

Jim Martin · 2009-04-15 16:20:38

Does any one remember these little crystal radio sets which used to be advertised in newspapers and comics in the 1950's? http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ivory_ivalek.html I always wanted one but it never happened, maybe I'll pick up a second-hand one. It still fascinates me that radio signals can be picked up without the…

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#32 22-09-2010 11:14pm
watty

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Depends how big/good an aerial

about 100m end fed wire and earth spike is good.

I'm curious now actually as to what my 20m wire can do on MW with a diode detector.

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