TW>{at}MSGID: 
  >ML> EV> I learned about Ham Radio in the Autumn of 1956 and hadn't heard
  >ML> EV> about SSB until a few years later.

TW>ML>I started down the radio trail at around 10 years of age in the 4th grade
  >ML>in College Station, Texas.  I could read at 3 years of age and in the sec
  >ML>grade I convinced my Dad to buy me a crystal set with the little arm and
  >ML>on it plus get me a little headphone set.  I wound my first coil on a Qua
  >ML>Oatmeal box and stunned my Dad when I let him hear WTAW-AM here at Teas A
  >ML>1150Khz on it!  WTAW for (Watch The Aggies Win) in 1929 - one of only six
  >ML>call signs West of the Mississippi River.

TW>I built my first crystal set up in Great Falls Montana in 1947. At night
  >I used to pick up XERO the Full Power Mexican Station down near
  >Clint Texas.

Tom,

I am really behind in reading and replying to BBS messages but I do
Preview the Personal messages in each .QWK Packet I grab.

Since reading about your building a Crystal Set, it made me remember the
one I built in High School Radio I Class 1957-1958.

One thing I remember is Shellacking the Toilet Paper Roll's CORE and
winding a long piece of wire on it, and then winding a second Coil over
the first one.

I've noticed the CORE has a bigger diameter Now than when I was younger.

I can remember each Roll having 365 sheets on them back in the late
1960's to early 1970's (when I married the YF) and a package of Four
Rolls cost 79 cents U.S.

Now a "Double Roll" in a package purchased recently has about 2/3rd's of
the paper on it as it was back in the good old days of the late '60's.

And since the Core is so large it would take a much longer length of
wire to wrap 400 (+ or -) turns on the core.

Wouldn't that change the Inductance in the Circuit???

BTW, I didn't use a Germanium Detector with a Wire Contact when I made
mine, I had to go to get a 1N34A Crystal Detector when I built 'MY'
Crystal Radio Set.

I think I paid 99 cents U.S. for the 1N34A in 1957.


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