6th grade is WAY too late to try to get them interested.

Back in the Dark Ages of the early 1960s, the Boy Scouts of America had an
Arrowhead point on the Wolf badge for a crystal radio, and one on the Bear
badge for a 1-tube regenerative receiver (complete with 1H4G tube and 90 V
B-battery). Wolf badge was nominally 8 years old, Bear nominally 9.

Kids can be successfully hooked on electronics at 5 or 6. The old 12-in-1
or 18-in-1 or N-in-1 experimenters kits work WONDERFULLY for that kind of
thing.

Ramsey Electronics used to sell a crystal radio kit. This is the standard
starting place.

"Matt" wrote in message
...
What sort of kit can I get for 6th grade kids to interest them in
radio/electronics? And where could I get same inexpensively (so I don't
go
broke if I got a bunch for a classful of kids)? Crystal radio? Something
else? Does anyone have experience/stories of doing something like this
with
a group of kids?

Thanks for your time.

73,
Matt Thomas
KD7PPK

As Mr Strohm indicated, Ramsey Electronics is a good one. Go to
www.ramseyelectronics.com/ for a selection.
Richard West, KF6KE

Matt wrote:

What sort of kit can I get for 6th grade kids to interest them in
radio/electronics? And where could I get same inexpensively (so I don't go
broke if I got a bunch for a classful of kids)? Crystal radio? Something
else? Does anyone have experience/stories of doing something like this with
a group of kids?

Thanks for your time.

73,
Matt Thomas
KD7PPK

Richard wrote:

As Mr Strohm indicated, Ramsey Electronics is a good one. Go to
www.ramseyelectronics.com/ for a selection.
Richard West, KF6KE

Watch it - many of their kits (at least when I last built one a
few years ago) were marginal designs, sometimes illegal, and
used components of questionable quality. Two transmitters -
one enabled the PA before the PLL locked, so it swept noise
across the band, and one was a multiplier design with *no*
filtering so it splattered every 12 MHz up and down from 2M,
an amp with a long thin ground trace for the final, etc.

/mike

Richard wrote:

As Mr Strohm indicated, Ramsey Electronics is a good one. Go to
www.ramseyelectronics.com/ for a selection.
Richard West, KF6KE

Watch it - many of their kits (at least when I last built one a
few years ago) were marginal designs, sometimes illegal, and
used components of questionable quality. Two transmitters -
one enabled the PA before the PLL locked, so it swept noise
across the band, and one was a multiplier design with *no*
filtering so it splattered every 12 MHz up and down from 2M,
an amp with a long thin ground trace for the final, etc.

/mike

As Mr Strohm indicated, Ramsey Electronics is a good one. Go to
www.ramseyelectronics.com/ for a selection.
Richard West, KF6KE

Matt wrote:

What sort of kit can I get for 6th grade kids to interest them in
radio/electronics? And where could I get same inexpensively (so I don't go
broke if I got a bunch for a classful of kids)? Crystal radio? Something
else? Does anyone have experience/stories of doing something like this with
a group of kids?

Thanks for your time.

73,
Matt Thomas
KD7PPK