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Default Do crystal radios still pick anything up?

In article , charles
scribeth thus
In article ,
tony sayer wrote:
To use two radio services meant disrupting them both.
terial.

The radio+TV broadcasts were in 1962, and I didn't have a TV.



nor did I, but the FM tuner that I'd built to a PW design could tune down
to Band 1 if I inserted an iron dust slug in one of the coils. It can't
have been a very good tuner since it managed the AM on Band 1.


Charles, do you remember which one that was at all, valve or
transistor?.


Valve. Using an ex-government IF strip.

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Often wondered if it could have worked!, anyone know where the circuit
is at all? must have been around 1966 to 68 or even a bit later.


Mine must have been about 1958/9.


Ah!, a very early FM tuner then. That government surplus IF strip what
was it originally for surely not FM broadcast radio?.
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Tony Sayer