Crystal Radios (was Re: List spammer ID'd) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Mar 2001

From: R. D. Davis &lt;rdd(a)smart.net&gt;
...
 My crystal radio used a germanium diode as well - it
was one of those
Radio Shack kits back in the 1970's.... still have it somewhere. 

I have no pretense of my age.  By the 1970s I was working  as a radio
tech (land mobile and marine) with a commercial license.

...
 time I checked, there were a few places still selling
real "cats
whiskers" (no - you don't catch the neighbor's cat to get one of these

Cats whisker is a thin peice of springy phospor bronze wire.  Try a 
peice of had drawn #30 copper with the end filed or cut to a point.

Allison