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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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1479519	2021-08-16 22:11:00	We lived in Wellington in the early 50s and my father got me a crystal set. He put up a long line aerial down the side of the house and I listened to it in bed. Crystal sets are not very selective. We lived just below Mt Victoria where there is a transmitter and until 10pm, when the station closed down, that was all I could receive. So although I was supposed to be going to sleep, I was waiting until 10pm so that I could listen to the other stations - 2YA, 2ZB and 2YC - which had their transmitters (and still do) at Titahi Bay. As I remember, crystal sets were fairly popular. Did anyone else have a crystal set?	Roscoe (6288)
1479520	2021-08-16 22:38:00	Yes. I bought one from SOS Radio when I was a school in Hamilton. My father had to take proof with him that we had a radio license otherwize I would have to had a new one for the crystal set. They sounded quite good fore their day . Could only get 1XH Hamilton but when we moved to Auckland we could get 1YA, 1YC, 1ZB and 1YD . Seemed like heaven at the time.	paulw (1826)
1479521	2021-08-16 22:59:00	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	kenj (9738)
1479522	2021-08-16 23:25:00	I had one of those electronics education sets, where you make xtal sets, buzzers & beepers etc. I had a small batt powered AM radio when was 8, so xtal set wasnt really needed . Built one, tested, never used again :)	1101 (13337)
1479523	2021-08-17 00:56:00	No such thing as small battery powered radio when I was a kid. hence the need for chrystal set. I think there was a portable radio available those days. My friends rich parents owned one and it was huge! Pretty rare though. Ken :banana	kenj (9738)
1479524	2021-08-17 01:44:00	Husband told me once he built one when he was a kid, really pleased with himself and the set.....	piroska (17583)
1479525	2021-08-17 02:10:00	Lost count of how many I built before progressing to a Hikers One. The Aerial was the most important so that went to the top of a fully grown Pine Tree. Because the tree would bend in a wind the aerial had to be attached via a pulley and window sash weight. However, if the aerial did break in a storm the emergency aerial was the wire-wove under your bed. ;) Safety in a thunder storm was a car spark-plug screwed into a socket attached to a length of 3/4” galv pipe driven into the ground in the garden under your window. Mother watering her garden made for a good earth. No Cones or Fluro's were used in the construction. Texting was done courtesy of Morse Code. Seems like yesterday. :)	B.M. (505)
1479526	2021-08-17 04:53:00	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 (2463)
1479527	2021-08-17 05:09:00	No, I had a 1 valve set from Bond and Bond which worked quite well. Then I got a small National leather clad transistor set which lasted for years and years. It cost me 20pounds to buy from a seafarer, and may have been one of the first in NZ. Everyone who saw it wanted to buy it from me.,,,,,,,,,then the Army gave me a ZC1.	Richard (739)
1479528	2021-08-17 05:54:00	That rings a bell Richard. I bought one of those National transistor radios from my boss just after I came to Napier in 1963. I think I paid about 20 quid as well. It also lasted for years and the leather was covered in paint from when I redecorated our first house. Great radio!! Ken :)	kenj (9738)
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