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Old June 8th 07, 09:15 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.radio
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"Randy or Sherry Guttery" wrote in message
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Brenda Ann wrote:


Variable tapped coil, rather than tuned. I've built crystal sets when I
was a kid that used a very crude form of this, with a fixed cap across it
made from wax paper and aluminum foil, and a slider made of brass that
was screwed onto a board and just scraped across the coil's windings to
tune the stations.


Wound on a Quaker Oats box (can?) by chance?


toilet paper roll!