JAY EMRIE wrote in a message 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 still find myself collecting lumps of galena for crystal sets that I never build.
Of course the diode rules supreme now!

Regards,
Peter 
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