Anyone ever built their own radio?

[Lamp]

Radio shack nerd alert!

http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/radio/radio.html#crystal

 

[rynnor]

I had one of those kits you used to be able to buy in tandy's as a kid - one of the things you could make with that was a crystal radio - it worked pretty well.

I tried to buy a similar kit for my kids but they only do piddly little ones nowadays with a few circuits to build.

 

[Raven]

I had one of those kits too. And a mini science lab in a box, managed to grow crystals of some sort and then set fire to my bedroom with meths. Ahh childhood.

 

[Job]

Made loads about 40 years ago!
You could buy all the bits then in a shop like Tandys/Radio shack, you can even use a wire and apiece of coal for the diode.

 

[Zenith.UK]

I made a simple electronic radio to receive AM when I was a kid.
It might have something to do with my dad being a radio ham. I've had radios of some sort or another around me most of my childhood.
Radio hams have moved on from the old style DX-ing. They try to use packet radio to send small amounts of computer data around the world. Thing is that the building solar maximum and sunspots are going to wreak havoc with long distance radio transmissions in the next couple of years.

 

[Aoami]

The amount of burn marks on my childhood bedroom carpet from those chemistry kits.... good times.

 

[Tom]

I didn't build a radio, but I did have one of these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SCI...ultDomain_2&hash=item5d30a56acb#ht_752wt_1163

 

[PLightstar]

Had to build one in CDT back in school about 13years ago. Can't remember any of it now though.

 

[dysfunction]

Yes I built my own crystal radio when I was a child. Worked quite well...until I started messing about with it to see what happens...

 

[rynnor]

I didn't build a radio, but I did have one of these:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-SCI...ultDomain_2&hash=item5d30a56acb#ht_752wt_1163

Thats the baby - I eventually butchered mine for parts for my electronics course.

 

[Lamp]

The amount of burn marks on my childhood bedroom carpet from those chemistry kits.... good times.

Ah yes! Chemistry kits. Great fun

 

[Tom]

Thats the baby - I eventually butchered mine for parts for my electronics course.

I'm very very tempted to buy it. I had that thing for ages and was always messing around with it.

 

[Fafnir]

I took one apart once thou... Forgot to unplug it first... Blew out the fuses and got a really nice lightshow..