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Default Do crystal radios still pick anything up?

In article , Chris Hogg
scribeth thus
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:03:38 +0000 (GMT), charles
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In article ,
Cursitor Doom wrote:
On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:10:38 +0000, charles wrote:


They've left the area They're now in Edgeware itself.


Tottenham Court Road used to be the mecca for electronic hobbyists back
in the day. They stocked *real* stuff back then; today it's just a load
of brand new consumer tech gadgets.


and Lisle Street before that.


http://tinyurl.com/gn69z3a

3-34 Lisle Street! They occupied almost the entire length of it, IIRC.


Did you have to publish that!. Spent all afternoon reading it all
through!.

Remember most all of those suppliers, a teenage childhood of sending off
postal orders and stamped addressed envelopes, and the excitement when
the package for the latest project turned up:!.
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Tony Sayer