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| Thread ID: 150038 | 2021-08-16 22:11:00 | Did you have a crystal set? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1479529 | 2021-08-17 08:47:00 | B.M. That brings back memories. It looks like I went through the same stages of building electronics that you did. I recall building a crystal set in a match box. Then progressed to the Hikers One which was followed by other electronics and an interest in Morse transmission. Those were the days. I guess a lot of us have similar stories to tell. Pato, since I wrote that post memories kept flooding back and when you mentioned a matchbox crystal set, OA85 glass Germanium Diode or equivalent 1N34 popped up. My sets were the old Cats Whisker type where the Cats Whisker was too big for a matchbox. :D When those little glass diodes came in I had moved onto Hikers One's. Struth, as I typed that 1Q5GT and DL36 popped up. (They were the valve equivalents with 1Q5GT being the better.) ;) |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1479530 | 2021-08-17 10:05:00 | Oh yes, that's what I listened to the Goon Show and the beginning of Rock 'n Roll on the Top 10 Hits! Thought it was wonderful in those days. Bill Haley rulz!! Ken :banana:banana:banana You silly twisted boy, you.:groan: |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1479531 | 2021-08-18 01:09:00 | I remember making one but I don't recall it being successful. I also remember climbing out onto the roof and attaching a wire that I ran about 50M up the bank behind our house and attaching it to a tree to use as an aerial. First windy night the tree moved too much and snapped it. Version 2 had a post in the bank. I enjoyed doing that stuff. I used to have a couple books with a lot of designs for crystal sets and basic transistor radios. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1479532 | 2021-08-18 02:40:00 | That is a fond memory of mine. Thank you for bringing that up. | DrNum (17574) | ||
| 1479533 | 2021-08-19 11:57:00 | Yes I built or a friend helped me in 1960 in Gisborne. I heard Halberg and Snell's Rome Gold medals listening on it. When we next moved to Te Awamutu in 1961 we moved to a newly built house high on a hil.had a longer higher aerial and my bedroom was higher off the ground but for some reason my reception was more erratic than it had been in Gisborne | Neil F (14248) | ||
| 1479534 | 2021-08-22 03:32:00 | I actually saw a ZC1 a couple of weeks ago at an army surplus place in k rd. | prefect (6291) | ||
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