Rocket Crystal Radio

[Barry A. Watzman]

I'll bet that radio is STILL made.  Not easy to find, perhaps, but some things never go out of style, and my guess is that this is one of them.  I'll also bet it's [at least] ten times more than the 99 cents that someone remembered paying.

It will, however, be far more difficult to find the telephone dial finger stop to clip the antenna to .......


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From:  Christian Fandt [SMTP:cfandt at NETSYNC.NET]
Sent:  Saturday, April 17, 1999 8:34 PM
To:  HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject:  Re: Rocket Crystal Radio

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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