When I was in 8th grade about 1967, we lived near a radio station in 
Endicott Ny.  I had a cristle radio and I recorded from it, it was 
fantastic.  The radio was a box, with a big coile, and a slider with a 
ball like thing connected to it.  You slid it for best results, you had 
pins for hed phones and antenna.  I stuck wires with clips on them and 
recorded on a VM recorder.
Mom also bought us pen like radios, the one end slid in or out  it 
looked like the clicker on a pen.  The wires for the hedphones, and 
antenna were in the center, where the pen might unscrew.
The quality of the musick was really good.
Mike
KD2CDU
On 1/30/2015 3:10 PM, Jim Gammon wrote:
> Hmmh, I think I will wait a while before messing with this.  Not
> only does it take awhile to remove the bottom cover, but I have
> to disconnect and reconnect all the stuff to do it.  Oh well,
> guess that's part of what we get when we are hams.  Mind you, I'm
> not complaining, 73, Jim WA6EKS
>