crystal set

[Radman]

Hi Fred,

The CR-1 was my first radio (at age 10)! I spent a lot of
hours on that primitive little receiver. Add *lots* of
antenna wire -- any long wire is fine. A decent earth
ground (cold water pipe connection) helps. Could be
there's some corrosion, rust, dead bugs, etc ... inside
the innards -- you might want to check all the solder
joints. With a 400 foot long wire, I could hear three or
four AM broadcast stations during the day and sometimes
pull in some "DX" from across the US at nite. A fun
Internet site for crystal folks is The Xtal Set Society at
URL: http://www.midnightscience.com/   they have all sorts
of books, kits, air variable caps, etc. Nice people !

Sorry I don't have a manual & sorry I sold my CR-1,

GL es 73 - Conrad Weiss - NN6CW

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I need the manual for the heath crystal set CR-1 I want to
know how to
tune it up. right now it just gets one station and it
should do better.
Xrox of that section will be OK. pay fair price Fred Geer
--fgeer at bellsouth.net

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