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D Peter Maus wrote:

Damn...that goes back some. My first radio was a Remco crystal set.

From there it was a crystal radio made by Bell Manufacturing in St
Louis under the Futura brand.

Then a Trancel 8 transistor. Followed by an onslaught of AM
transistor radios.

The first shortwave was a Hallicrafters S-53A. Followed in short
order by my grandfather's Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro).

The Halli, I gave to a kid who's father I worked with to start his
own swl hobby.

The Super Pro got a recapping, and sits on the desk next to my
RX-350, and an assortment of hundreds of others.


It got out of control pretty fast. And thank God, stayed out of
control.

Me too. Mine was a blue color not black but otherwise looked just like
this one.
http://www.peeblesoriginals.com/vintage/Remco-crystal-radio.jpg

My Dad made a sloping wire antenna out the back window. I could pick up
a number of stations very well with it.

Later on I bought a radio kit with a crystal mounted in a piece of lead
for one contact and it had a Cat's whisker contact for the other side.
You had to find a "hot spot" on the crystal for the radio to work, which
was a spot were the crystal operated as a diode. That made it a
challenge to get it working at first because you had to have the radio
tuned to a station and find the crystal "hot spot" to get anything.

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Telamon
Ventura, California