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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2021 14:51:49 GMT
One of my First RadiosDad strung a wire antenna from my 2nd floor bedroom window. We made insulators from Plexiglass, nailed a 1X2 support to the fence. I could hear 3 local stations on a good day.
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Post by Boomer on Apr 16, 2021 17:43:39 GMT
Good to show this now, the simplicity of radio, when some want to change AM radio to digital. That picture shows all you need for a radio, 'fox hole' style, though army men in fox holes wouldn't have a galena detector and would use a razor blade and pencil lead as a detector. Let me guess, you could pick up WGAR, WWWE and one other, WHK? You better have listened to the Mad Daddy show..  The adjustable coil lets you get by without a tuning condenser, using the coil's own self capacitance and the antenna wire's capacitance to resonate to different stations. If you have a variable condenser, you can add it across the coil for better selectivity and volume. Wal-Mart sold almost the same radio kit. Around 2008 I had checked out, and passed a shelf of closeout products, and this crystal radio kit for kids was there for $5, so I grabbed it and got back in line. Germanium diode, plastic coil form, magnet wire, fine sand paper and beige crystal earpiece. I only ever saw a cat's whisker detector live at school, but we didn't use it. Does someone still make them? Boomer |
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Post by Admin on Apr 16, 2021 18:17:25 GMT
Being closer to Akron, my locals were WADC, WAKR and WHLO.
WADC was later WSLR then WTOU now WARF. Their format at the time was Country but ran religious programming also. Kathryn Coulman, Garner Ted Armstrong and the likes.
The picture is the Cub Scout radio. I made a Foxhole radio by thumb-tacking a razor blade and safety pin to my window sill.
Actually, I think my first crystal radio was a Remco Tiny Tim. It was a plastic case, handheld crystal radio. I still have one. Dad got that for me when I was about five.
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Post by station8 on Apr 16, 2021 18:51:34 GMT
Howday Y'all:
When I lived in upstate new york my dad strung a wire antenna for
a 1930 floor model receiver and we picked up japan on ww clean and clear,
Them old tube receiver where great!.
Station 8
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Post by sparepart on Apr 17, 2021 10:38:08 GMT
I only ever saw a cat's whisker detector live at school, but we didn't use it. Does someone still make them?
SP
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Post by Boomer on Apr 23, 2021 2:16:37 GMT
I've heard WAKR 1590, and WARF was heard just recently, a political discussion, but it turned out to be by sports hosts, and I looked up the station on Radio-Locator.
I had an AM station 2 miles from here and sometimes you could hear it in audio amplifiers with exposed wire leads. I had a phono and could touch the wires on the back of the cartridge and hear that station. For more loudness I touched the connector with a screw driver tip. The sound quality was excellent too, it sounded like a record.
I like that Midnight Science site too, for the cat's whisker detector and their other crystal radios and parts. It looks like they're connected with a Wireless society and promotion.
Boom
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Post by mark on Apr 24, 2021 0:18:50 GMT
Howday Y'all: When I lived in upstate new york my dad strung a wire antenna for a 1930 floor model receiver and we picked up japan on ww clean and clear, Them old tube receiver where great!. Station 8 Everything was better back then. Was Japan on short wave or AM? What's WW? I loved those floor model radios. People had them in the living room and the family sat around it listening to the dramas. |
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Post by station8 on Apr 24, 2021 14:36:36 GMT
Howdy Y'all: The ww was short wave for some reason the s changed to w no clue why. The antenna was a tee shape up between two trees at a height of 20 feet in the air The top t section was about 20 feet long,ends facing east and west.
The center wire was about 40 feet long to receiver, ends facing north and south.
Station 8 |
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