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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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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.