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Never could get these to work in the middle of nowhere because we had no strong AM stations, but here I'm close enough to a couple that I had my choice of far-right religion or sports talk radio. Eh....

But hey. crystal radio is cool, and this thing is surprisingly good (although not very selective) at receiving stuff when there are decent signals.

Yeah, I've got it amplified because the earpiece in the kit needs repair, it has a broken wire from sitting curled up since the 90s.

Never could get these to work in the middle of nowhere because we had no strong AM stations, but here I'm close enough to a couple that I had my choice of far-right religion or sports talk radio. Eh.... But hey. crystal radio is cool, and this thing is surprisingly good (although not very selective) at receiving stuff when there are decent signals. Yeah, I've got it amplified because the earpiece in the kit needs repair, it has a broken wire from sitting curled up since the 90s.

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Yeah, like said. Kits like this are very "lego" like. Just read the instructions and put the right thing in the right place.

Everyone has to start somewhere. I had a kit like 118 electronics projects in 1. It was basically a simplified "breadboard" with components and instructions. Too bad mine were always from a garage sale or something and were missing parts. That lead to me learning about the parts I was missing and going somewhere like the local rat-shack (radio shack) to find replacements from their ever dwindling supply of components.

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As I got older I appreciated the "everything's there, nothing other than some wire and spring clips" aspect of the device.

I'd love to figure out what kind of tuned coil they were buying, I'd like to make some cheap radio devices based around that.

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I think if I had some formal training I’d probably start to get a better grasp on it. It’s weird, I excelled really well in mathematics in my school years. You just followed the rules of it and came to the answers so you’d think I’d find electronics to be very much the same process and understandable. In my replies to stupidbird you can see I dabbled a bit with guitar pedal kits and the like. All of this after the crash of rat shack, but did have access to a Fry’s Electronics store and tinkered with breadboard learning, then they began to crumble shortly thereafter ending that self learning pursuit. If I wasn’t so long in the tooth now and so busy just try’n to keep my head above water, while pursuing other interests, while watching and studying the shit show that this world has become my going out will probably be with the regrets of failing to grasp the electronic age that has stood before me my entire life. Like I said to stupidbird, I have great admiration for you guys that have an understanding of it, it is cool shit!