Wayne Parham Messages: 18835 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
I grew up in Tulsa, which has a 50kW "boomer" station.
When I was a kid, I built a crystal radio and had no trouble receiving that powerful station as well as one other.
But I now live in a rural area, and there are no such stations. So a crystal radio doesn't capture anything here. Gotta have a little amplification here.
But you can buy kits of either type - germanium diode "crystal" radio or simple transistor radio.
I would suggest getting a "100-in-1" electronics kit, which will allow you to build both kinds of radio as well as many other projects including a radio transmitter, light activated switch, sound effects, digital electronics and more. They are designed to allow you to build-up and tear-down easily using spring terminals to capture the wires for connections.
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