Rocket Crystal Radio

[Christian Fandt]

Upon the date 02:40 PM 4/17/99 -0700, Huttinger said something like:
>Hi all,
>    I had one of those rocket crystal sets.  The one I had was red I
>believe.  I had it when I was in the fifth grade, around 1958.  I used to
>walk around and clip it on everything metal I could find.  The antenna clip
>would work when dropped into wet snow.
>Mike Huttinger

I guess they made those little radios for some period of time Mike if you
say yours was circa 1958. I had one back in the early 60's. Got only a few
stations as I had no long antenna and a local station spread itself across
a lot of the tuning range as I recall even today.

Lessee now, I think I was about 8 or 9 yrs old so that would make it 1961
to 1963 range of time. Dang, I wonder if I still have that lttle radio
around somewhere. I'm a packrat and even today I found some papers and
stuff from back in my senior high school days ('70 - '71). Last week I
found my old grade school and high school report cards (all from K to
12th). My wife got a kick out of them. Anyway, there's hope yet that it may
be around.

Regards,  Chris
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Christian Fandt,         Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY  USA      cfandt at netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
        URL: http://www.ggw.org/awa

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