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Where radio history and art meet: An interview with Geoffrey Roberts
Fanciful and functional: A Marconi Mk III crystal shortwave tuner set in the service of Australian signallers. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) At the SWLing Post, we love radio history and that of...
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Crystal radio credit card receiver
On a tip from my good friend Dave Cripe (NM0S), I just purchased this cute crystal receiver kit from a UK-based seller on eBay. The price is 8 GPB plus 3.50 GPB for shipping. After PayPal currency...
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Tinkering with the Credit Card Crystal Radio
A few weeks ago, we published a short post about a credit card crystal radio from an eBay seller in the UK. I purchased a kit–at $17-18 US shipped, it’s quite a modest investment for what might be a...
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Listener Post: Greg Blair
Greg Blair’s radio story is the latest in our series called Listener Posts, where I place all of your personal radio histories. If you would like to add your story to the mix, simply send your story by...
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Radio Caroline and a crystal radio: “The making of a rebel”
Radio Caroline circa 1960’s. Many thanks to SWLing Post reader Mike, who shares a link to this story from the blog République No.6: Growing up in Piennes Lorraine, Radio Caroline the making of a rebel...
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Where radio history and art meet: An interview with Geoffrey Roberts
Fanciful and functional: A Marconi Mk III crystal shortwave tuner set in the service of Australian signallers. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) At the SWLing Post, we love radio history and that of...
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Crystal radio credit card receiver
On a tip from my good friend Dave Cripe (NM0S), I just purchased this cute crystal receiver kit from a UK-based seller on eBay. The price is 8 GPB plus 3.50 GPB for shipping. After PayPal currency...
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Tinkering with the Credit Card Crystal Radio
A few weeks ago, we published a short post about a credit card crystal radio from an eBay seller in the UK. I purchased a kit–at $17-18 US shipped, it’s quite a modest investment for what might be a...
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Listener Post: Greg Blair
Greg Blair’s radio story is the latest in our series called Listener Posts, where I place all of your personal radio histories. If you would like to add your story to the mix, simply send your story by...
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Radio Caroline and a crystal radio: “The making of a rebel”
Radio Caroline circa 1960’s. Many thanks to SWLing Post reader Mike, who shares a link to this story from the blog République No.6: Growing up in Piennes Lorraine, Radio Caroline the making of a rebel...
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Make your own 3-D printed crystal radio
(Source: Southgate ARC) Did you know you can build your very own working 3D-printed radio – without any soldering, electronics experience, electric cord, or even batteries? Digital Trends reports...
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Where radio history and art meet: An interview with Geoffrey Roberts
Fanciful and functional: A Marconi Mk III crystal shortwave tuner set in the service of Australian signallers. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) At the SWLing Post, we love radio history and that of...
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Crystal radio credit card receiver
On a tip from my good friend Dave Cripe (NM0S), I just purchased this cute crystal receiver kit from a UK-based seller on eBay. The price is 8 GPB plus 3.50 GPB for shipping. After PayPal currency...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tinkering with the Credit Card Crystal Radio
A few weeks ago, we published a short post about a credit card crystal radio from an eBay seller in the UK. I purchased a kit–at $17-18 US shipped, it’s quite a modest investment for what might be a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Listener Post: Greg Blair
Greg Blair’s radio story is the latest in our series called Listener Posts, where I place all of your personal radio histories. If you would like to add your story to the mix, simply send your story by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Radio Caroline and a crystal radio: “The making of a rebel”
Radio Caroline circa 1960’s. Many thanks to SWLing Post reader Mike, who shares a link to this story from the blog République No.6: Growing up in Piennes Lorraine, Radio Caroline the making of a rebel...
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Dave sheds a little light on wireless electric transmission
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave (NM0S), who left the following comment on our previous post regarding wireless electric transmission: This company [Viziv] had been known as Texzon until...
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“Crystals Go To War”: A 1943 film about the production of Signal Corps radio...
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Charlie (W4MEC), who shares this fascinating film which documents the production and calibration of crystals in 1943. I had no idea of the amount of labor and...
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Back when Superboy encouraged kids to build radios with razor blades
Talk about hitting all of my nostalgia points! Hat tip to SWLing Post reader, Mitch, for sharing this ad from a 1960s comic book: Do you enjoy the SWLing Post? Please consider supporting us via Patreon...
View ArticleAM radio from a hand-wound coil and an oxidized British penny
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans, who shares the following video and article via Hackaday: There’s been a spate of apocalypse related articles over the last few weeks, but when I saw...
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