While I was in high school, my bedside radio was a crystal set that my dad and I built. It had a 1n34 diode as the detector and a tapped coil that we wound on a wooden form plus 2 variable capacitors. We were close enough to the philly transmitters that I could receive WFIL with no problem. since it was broad as a barn door, the fidelity was terific,even on AM. Lou Kolb Voice-over Artist: Radio/TV Ads, Video narrations Messages On-hold: www.loukolb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 7:48 PM Subject: Broadcast Band >I am still a broadcast band DX hound. I started at about age 6 with a > crystal set in the shape of a little red rocket ship listening by clipping > the ground aligater clip on anything I figured was going to ground. Got > one > station, of course. We used to stand outside in the freezing cold at the > Nebraska School for the Blind, with our radios pressed up against a light > pole behind the school building because the close proximity help increase > signal strength. We could copy X E R F just over the Mexican border and > loved listening to Wolf man Jack. He did a year of broadcasting here in > Denver in his later years. I about fell off my chair when I heard him > locally one day years ago. Anyhow, My Icom 7000 is a super broadcast band > receiver. All the features, notch filter, DSP, crystal filters, etc.. and > the 3 levels of pre-amp settings work, too, so plugging in all those > frequencies of favorit stations makes it easy tuning, not to mention the > QSY > er used to tap in the frequencies. Changing frequency increments, point > one, point 01 and point 001 helps fine tuning and the 3 levels of > Amplitude > modulation makes a big difference as well. It is still fun to tune the > bands and now even below 500 KHz. > > Phil. > K0NX