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Scott Greczkowski

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• Mar 19, 2018

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I have been a good boy. Please get me the following...

SDS100 Coming Soon - Uniden

 

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HIFI

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• Mar 19, 2018

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I'll take one too.

 

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• Mar 19, 2018

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and everyone says I'm bad about wishing for Christmas early.

 

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I was just wondering the other day, when someone was going put SDR in a stand alone scanner.

 

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• Mar 23, 2018

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Notice the double asterisks, already $700 and paid upgrade required to get NXDN and DMR plus others. I think I will hold out for awhile with my TRX1.

 

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• Mar 24, 2018

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Now, where did I leave that four transistor radio of mine?

 

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• Mar 25, 2018

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navychop said:

Now, where did I leave that four transistor radio of mine?

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Newcomer. I still remember using a crystal radio.

 

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gasman882001

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• Apr 19, 2018

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Gosh my Radio Shack Desktop one is still around somewhere!?!?!? wonder if it will even turn on?

 

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harshness

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TheKrell said:

I still remember using a crystal radio.

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I remember building one from a kit and later from scratch using a toilet paper core for the coil windings.

 

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TheKrell

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harshness said:

I remember building one from a kit and later from scratch using a toilet paper core for the coil windings.

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Dang harshness, you one-upped me. I never built a crystal radio out of a toilet paper core. I did, however, build one from a kit.

 

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• Apr 19, 2018

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I built my first crystal radio in a cigar box, when I was 7 years old...

 

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• Apr 19, 2018

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I built a Tesla Coil from a paper tube that held wrapping paper, does that count?
(not a radio receiver, but it did make a great radio jammer/ozone generator!)

 

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spongella

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• Apr 20, 2018

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Built one of those "foxhole radios" from a '60's Popular Mechanics way back when. Used a razor blade and pencil lead instead of a germanium diode. Never worked for me though, hi hi.

 

gasman882001

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I can still remember as a kid building a crystal radio from a Radio Shack kit and used an alligator clip to connect to the metal part of our rotary phone finger stop, i think it was for power or was that the antenna? wow, that sure dug up an old memory!

 

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harshness

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spongella said:

Used a razor blade and pencil lead instead of a germanium diode.

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Back in my mom's day, they used galena diodes. Half the fun was finding the spots on the crystal that acted as a diode.

 

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jayn_j

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• Apr 20, 2018

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I made 4 or 5 as an early teen. The crystals were readily available from Olsen Electronics. No power needed, unless you wanted a speaker.
But then I got my HAM license at 13, and had no time for 'fake' radios.

 

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spongella

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• Apr 22, 2018

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I had an aunt who claimed in the old days she could "hear" a radio station coming out of one of her teeth. Hmmmm.......

 

Scott Greczkowski

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• Apr 22, 2018

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There was an episode of Gillian’s Island where he was able to pick up radio in his mouth.

 

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harshness

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• Apr 22, 2018

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spongella said:

I had an aunt who claimed in the old days she could "hear" a radio station coming out of one of her teeth. Hmmmm.......

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Back in the day, the material that dental fillings were made from wasn't all that far from germanium or galena. There's still the issue of how you listen to it. The signal would need to be strong enough not to need a tuner or antenna.

 

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TheRatPatrol

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• Apr 22, 2018

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Is that a police scanner?

I didn’t think Uniden was still around. I had one of their police scanners and CB radios as a kid.