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| Crystal Set Projects from the Xtal Set
Society Newsletter, Volumes 12 & 13 You’ll want to see the many wonderful pictures of in-process and completed sets, including Dan’s “Modern Morgan,” featured on the cover, and Mike’s version of the famous “Oat Box Crystal Set.” Here’s just a taste of the articles, subjects, and projects included: a regenerative receiver, receiving condensers, a band-pass loop stick radio, a short-wave crystal set, “Build Your Own Cats Whisker Detector,” “Doing the Doerle,” a super selective set, “Queen Rebecca’s Got a New Loopy-Loop,” “A CD-ROM Radio,” developing an inductance formula for the spiral wound square loops, and more. One aspect of being a crystal radio hobbyist is making radios from things simply lying around the house. Alex Jueschke’s article, “Quality Headset from a Magnet, a Relay, and a Can of Peanuts,” described on pages 60-61, nicely represents this part of the hobby. 8-1/2 by 11 inches, 135 pages, perfect bound, $15.95 |
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CRYSTAL
RADIO BONANZA
(volume 9, 10, 11 of XSS News) You’ll find 20 complete projects in this great Crystal Radio book! Each project has step-by-step instructions, parts lists, photos and schematics. Build a simple radio from a closet rod, or a more complicated TRF, 1-Tube Radio. Also included are projects modeled after old radio articles, like the Radio in a Greeting card that you make a and then mail it to your radio friends. Many of the projects have templates for coil forms and front panels. You’ll find plans for Gilligan’s Radio to make a receiver out of stuff around the house such as tin foil, mailing tubes, and wire! Included are simple projects that are fun to build with kids, like the little radio based on the “Knight” kits from the 1950’s Allied Radio kits. In addition there are increasingly harder projects for those wanting to build more complicated sets including circuits with series/parallel antenna tuning, full broadcast band tuning, and a tuneable wavetrap. There are projects based on Alfred P. Morgans 1918 book, “The Boys First Book of Radio and Electronics,” along with more advanced sets like the AM Loose Coupler that was used by the Navy in the early days. You’ll also find other articles showing how to build radio components like capacitors out of modern CD’s and headphones out of shoe polish cans. Build a big loop antenna around your doorway like they did in WWII to hide their radios from the authorities...also learn how to fix up those old antique headphones you bought. All these projects were originally seen in our newsletter volumes 9, 10, and 11, so whatever level you are at you’ll find more than a few projects to keep you busy! Get a copy today! 8 ˝ x 11 paperback, 226 pgs Cat# XV11 $14.95 |
| Crystal Set Loopers, a 3 Tuber and More: Volume 8 of the Xtal Set Society Newsletter. The best volume yet! Build a shortwave looper, Mike's "Super Duper AM/SW 3 Tuber," an antenna tuner/AM trap, a loop with a new twist, a Frisbee crystal radio, a radio from a deodorant stick, a 1920's wave trap reproduction, and find many more fun building ideas. Learn about biasing effects on diode performance, variocouplers and variometers, and some molybdenite crystal detector experiments. Discover crystal set secrets by reading correspondence from our members all over the world. The Xtal Set Society Newsletter just keeps getting better and better every year. Volume 8 was a lot of fun! | |
| The Crystal Set Handbook: and Volume III of the Xtal Set Society Newsletter, by Philip N. Anderson. There is nothing else out there like this handbook. It takes the reader beyond the basics and discusses the math and mechanisms behind the mystery of the crystal set. "This book is written for crystal set enthusiasts, radio amateurs, first-time radio experimenters, and electronics students. I wrote it to encourage design, building, & experimentation" —Phil Anderson. Contents of the book include an introduction to the crystal set with a simple oat box project, formulas for coil inductance and coil Q, a procedure for measuring coil capacitance, introductory and advanced chapters on L-C circuit matching, and Volume III of the Xtal Set Society Newsletter (issues 13-15). | |
| Crystal Sets: The Xtal Set Society Newsletter, Volume 5. These reprints of the Society newsletter from 1995 are a lot of fun. They include a three part article on the design of unpowered AM receivers made from rocks, which includes plans for building test equipment such as an impedance meter and a Q meter. Also covered is a radio outfit in a headset, Marconi type 107-A tuner, the matching secret, and a great ground-noise powered receiver. Get a copy for yourself or for a fellow radio friend! | |
| The Xtal Set Society Newsletter,
Volume 4. This book contains 6 great issues of the Xtal Set Society Newsletter from 1994. The topics include hints on measuring coil capacitance, two building projects using Quaker Oats boxes, broadcast and short-wave notes, how to make home-brew headphones and curve tracers, how crystal earphones work, and a description and schematic of 10 crystal sets. |
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| VOLUME I & II: The Xtal Set Society Newsletter Don't miss out on these great Originals! Now in our twelth year, the original 6 issues still hold their own. Included in Volume One is a complete set of plans for a "Modern Day Crystal Set," including pc layout and audio amplification. Why did the sets of the 1920's work anyway? Read about crystal sets and wireless from 1905-1928 and a barebones crystal set, compact! Learn how to match your antenna and set for maximum signal reception. Volume II includes, The Lead Pencil Detector! What's the minimum detectable signal? Information on detector biasing for improved sensitivity. Double-tuned circuit crystal sets. The Universal Crystal Set. FM crystal sets? The electrolytic detector. The coherer revisited. The Miller '595' Tuner revisted. |
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