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Post by End80 on Oct 30, 2022 17:38:19 GMT
I don't think I've ever seen one of these, there's several ads for it during the 1950s, this particular ad below was from 1952, but Ive seen them in 1957 advertised too. A crystal radio that you would clip to your bed springs to receive stations without need of power. I see several people saying the reception was really good and surprisingly it was not uncommon to pick up even distant stations (seems hard to beleive)believe. I just think it's cool. You'll notice the illustration in the ad looks rather different than the picture, maybe they had different styles through the years. Like I said, never seen one (other than the picture above), but it appears many were manufactured but apparently it's rare to find one today
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2022 0:06:35 GMT
I had a variety of crystal radios and have bought some of my youthful toys back from Ebay. Remco made several. I had (have) a couple they made. My favorite, as it was the first I had at the age of about 5, is the Tiny Tim. About the size of a pack of cigarettes, it has a grounding clip-lead, a 3-section folding antenna and an earphone. Tuning, like the Rocket, was with a sliding metal rod the moved about 2.5 inches in/out of the top. There were 3 local AM's within 5 miles I could hear: WADC, WAKR, WHLO. The colors were reversed on mine, yellow body with red V.
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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2022 0:20:58 GMT
Although not my video shared here, this is the other Remco Crystal Radio that I had (have).
The announcer mistakenly mentions the tuning coil is a "resistor". It's actually an inductor.
His didn't work but that's because it needs about 50 feet of antenna wire strung up and a good ground.
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Post by mark on Oct 31, 2022 1:38:23 GMT
I remember those. I had the rocket one I remember.
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