On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:14:44 -0800 (PST), wrote:

I remember the rocket crystal set...a friend had one and we tried it
out on different "antennas". One that worked well was the insulated
guy wire on electric power poles.

My crystal radio, I coupled to a wire run along the clothesline outside
my window. I used tinfoil inside & out on my bedroom window, and oddly
enough, it worked. Pretty sure I read about it somewhere, can't imagine
I would have made that up.

Also fell asleep listening to the local ROCK station in Toronto.

World Something Radio, on shortwave here. Insert sound-effects here,
you know the ones.

Ahhh, memories.

Indeed.