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The war is over Dum ass! It was not nice! Everyone lost. Thanks to people like you, stupid will never die. 😎

HOOWWww Nicely done! beautiful how you made it, very nice! Healthy and Friendly Greetings from the Netherlands! ... Rob

I would like to suggest anybody interested in very basic radios you can build yourself with simple tools and only basic skills Google "Armstrong Crystal Radio." The little radio is as simple as the most basic crystal set, but greatly, greatly outperforms even the best and most elaborate standard crystal radio in every possible way. This little radio is based on the principles developed as early as 1911 by Edwin Armstrong and used in the radios of the early 1920's. Be sure to click on the Armstrong crystal radio when the search engine brings it up. At the website there is also instructions to convert a simple crystal set into a Armstrong radio.

Hi. What did you use to produce the nice dial scales? And yes, making your own tuning caps isn't that hard, made a few myself.

Thank goodness it’s to cold where I am

160 meters used to be a Police dispatch band from that era, me thinks

Very clever design with that Faraday shield

Expertly made! And you did it all from salvaged material

Man that gives me the creeps 😬

Very nice project, but do I have it right that this is made mostly of scrap? I think I may have heard it was, about a dozen times ;-)

Very well made, I used to make crystal sets many years ago and for a detector I used a old pencil lead wrapped around a long piece of wire and leaning on a old razor blade with little pressure.the volume was not great but it worked.

Nice radio it has even RF gain control

HEY GARY KN6RSX

Wow I'm not alone with my pixie . I prefer that than all technology shit and yes ! it do the job very well . qrpp is my Ham radio vision . 73's

Hi Gary. It is a '_bare_ face lie' not a 'bear' one.

Greetings from Mt. Nebo, WV. That’s a fine looking radio! 😊 Glad I ran across your channel. 73! de KE8LUC

Always loved the night time propagation when the band goes long... The inner levels start to cool off..

I have fun doing this with my pixie on SDR sites all over western Canada and USA. On 40m from my QTH in southern BC I have got the meter at the Northern Utah SDR to S7. Amazes me. VA7VEB

I have the ultra v version is am able to do skip on it. the radio is stock powered by 12 volt battery on a 42 inch cobra magnet mount antenna on my gun locker inside the house!

Genius👏!

Very nicely made 👍

Years ago, I made a crystal set for a Science Fair...BUT no matter what I did a local radio station KOMA 50.000 watts in Moore OK (OKC) Over took any selection of any other AM stations. ,I heard stories of the broadcast bleeding onto telephone conversations.

This is how I always envisioned ham radio when I was a kid. Thank you, Gary, for showing how it's done.73's🎙KD9OAM🎧

A schematic would save all the description 🥹😀

I built my crystal radio several years ago while studying for my ham license. I included two traps to lockout our local radio stations. I need to get the radio out and play around with it.

Hello!Good work! To implrove sensetivity - please use a MOSFET switch detector (NO batteries or power supply) may be used. For example with the BF998/.I experimented with it - I was in a willage - and I heard noises in a phone (250 Ohms) at day.I highly recommend it! In my construction there was two variable coupled coil and a small (100pF) capacitor.The selectivity was quite good in MW band.Variable inductors allows increase quality factor to maximum value (and matching high impedance of a short antenna) and as a result we have more sensetivity.

Nice build!!! I just made a crystal set and added a #30 tube, with a tuning cap, and also includes a variometer tuning coil with a tickler coil. When I remove the 1.5 volt filament battery the set still works , but wont work with out the tube. The set regenerates nicely . So what I ended up with is a regenerative crystal radio. I ordered a 12V audio amp from Amazon and it drives a 1960s 8 ohm speaker. Strange radio, but actually works!!!!😀

my generation made these in boy scouts high school shop...

I still remember the crystal radio that I threw together about 60 years ago. I had a rock sample collection that was brought back from a Florida vacation, and so I used the quartz rock sample as the radios detector.

That’s awesome. ❤it . Thanks for sharing

Parts where I find them

nice job Gary !

Love it.

Pretty cool Gary!

I’d like to know more about how you made the capacitors.

Classy looking receiver! Nice workmanship!

Outstanding. I remember seeing crystal kits when I was a kid and none of them worked this well. Nice work! I don't know how I got here but I subscribed

In 1959 in Orlando..we had a radio club at School..we built a radio powered xtal radio..used gem diode..was really 2 separate xtal sets..one was for the station.the other is tuned to a super local sta to get rectified power that went to a small speaker with a transistor amplifier.. hard to adjust . very little increase from earphones. I think we were about 1/4 mile from power tower...ha

I don't see any corrosion on the fasteners , you are a meticulous metal polisher to get those used fasteners so shiney. What metal polish do you use? Oh wait , by scrap you mean left over new stuff . Oops It looks fantastic ! I like what you did with the coupler and band extension. Good job! Thank you for sharing with us. 73s

You did not mention the value of the trimmer caps

How do you make the dial legends? Ar they printed on paper or what?

Update this Crystal Radio is doing well better than I thought it would do I get 2 good stations in the daytime and more than 10 at nighttime like on .740 CFZM in Toronto, Canada , WBZ 1.030 Boston, WHO 1.040 Des Moines, IA and more this is super cool I will try to get QSL cards from some of these stations I also made an Antenna Tuner for the AM band.

Its nice looking and I guess good in your location Where I am, I have stations almost one on top of the other so I need to do better on that if I want to hear only one station at a time. I made a double tuned one with adjustable coupling to get the selectivity I needed. I used the capacitive coupling method.

As everybody else says, it would be nice to get more information on the assembly of the plastic insulated tuning capacitors please. I made one myself but did not think to include the insulators.....it works but have to treat it carefully. Sadly in the UK, we don't have many AM broadcast stations remaining and shortly may have none of any appreciable power. Very sad both in terms of learning/educating the young and in terms of emergency nationwide communications backup. (FM too patchy reception/DAB too power hungry and patchy reception).

That is a really nice design

Jumping spiders are surprisingly personable, aren't they?

That's brilliant Gary. Beautiful piece of construction and works really well. Good to see you using a germanium diode as they are the best for a crystal set....and the home made caps are great... (would be good to see how you put them together)

29" dia x 3.14 = 91 inch length loop.

Fantastic workmanship.

Wow thats one of the best Crystal systems i have seen in a long time sir.