-=> JAY EMRIE wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 JE> I can still remember the first radio I built:
 JE> Wound a coil myself, used a lead crystal for a diode and a pair of
 JE> headsets. Of course this was just recently - in 1942!

I built one of those.
Quaker oatmeal box coil form.
Real solderable tin foil peeled from gum wrappers
for the capacitor.
Enamaled wire coil on the form with one band stripped of insulation
and tuned by a sliding contact.
Crystal holder made of some small piece of rearranged copper
tubing and gallina Xtal.
Early 60's in the Boy Scouts.
 
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