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     >ML> EV> I learned about Ham Radio in the Autumn of 1956 and hadn't heard   
     >ML> EV> about SSB until a few years later.   
      
   TW>ML>I started down the radio trail at around 10 years of age in the 4th grade   
     >ML>in College Station, Texas.  I could read at 3 years of age and in the sec   
     >ML>grade I convinced my Dad to buy me a crystal set with the little arm and   
     >ML>on it plus get me a little headphone set.  I wound my first coil on a Qua   
     >ML>Oatmeal box and stunned my Dad when I let him hear WTAW-AM here at Teas A   
     >ML>1150Khz on it!  WTAW for (Watch The Aggies Win) in 1929 - one of only six   
     >ML>call signs West of the Mississippi River.   
      
   TW>I built my first crystal set up in Great Falls Montana in 1947. At night   
     >I used to pick up XERO the Full Power Mexican Station down near   
     >Clint Texas.   
      
   Tom,   
      
   I am really behind in reading and replying to BBS messages but I do   
   Preview the Personal messages in each .QWK Packet I grab.   
      
   Since reading about your building a Crystal Set, it made me remember the   
   one I built in High School Radio I Class 1957-1958.   
      
   One thing I remember is Shellacking the Toilet Paper Roll's CORE and   
   winding a long piece of wire on it, and then winding a second Coil over   
   the first one.   
      
   I've noticed the CORE has a bigger diameter Now than when I was younger.   
      
   I can remember each Roll having 365 sheets on them back in the late   
   1960's to early 1970's (when I married the YF) and a package of Four   
   Rolls cost 79 cents U.S.   
      
   Now a "Double Roll" in a package purchased recently has about 2/3rd's of   
   the paper on it as it was back in the good old days of the late '60's.   
      
   And since the Core is so large it would take a much longer length of   
   wire to wrap 400 (+ or -) turns on the core.   
      
   Wouldn't that change the Inductance in the Circuit???   
      
   BTW, I didn't use a Germanium Detector with a Wire Contact when I made   
   mine, I had to go to get a 1N34A Crystal Detector when I built 'MY'   
   Crystal Radio Set.   
      
   I think I paid 99 cents U.S. for the 1N34A in 1957.   
      
      
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