Many years ago when I was about 10 years old I received the gift of a crystal radio. I think it had about three parts. What was the crystal and how did it work? A crystal radio? Did you hook the ...

Back before cell phones … before video games … before television … even before electric radios, there were crystal radio receivers. In the early 1920s and 1930s, magazines offered instructions on how ...

Most crystal radio receivers have a decidedly “field expedient” look to them. Fashioned as they often are from a few turns of wire around an oatmeal container and a safety pin scratching the surface ...

Q: I need an indoor AM/FM antenna for my 30 year-old Technics receiver. It works well enough for the most part, but I have trouble receiving radio on either band. I purchased a TERK PIB amplified ...

The cool thing with crystal radios is that they are solely powered by the incoming radio waves. However, it usually means listening to your AM radio station with an earpiece and even then, depending ...