Radios

[Guest arf!!]

my exhaust is the only sourse of music i need and it plays all of my favorite tracks all of the time BRIL!!

[Guest outtolunch]

What about a cat's whisker crystal radio?

No drain on the battery, but might have a job keeping on station when moving, or even idling!

And I bet most on here are too young to have even seen or heard of one.

I had one my grandfather gave me; got chucked away when I got bored with it; wish I'd kept it!

 

when I was about 13 I had an "electronics" kit in which one of the projects was a cat's whisker radio but without the whisker and crystal I think a variable capacitor was used instead no valves in the kit but I remember a board with lots of springs on it that was used to connect the components together

[Guest AdrianH]

I remember a board with lots of springs on it that was used to connect the components together

 

That sounds like a Philips electronic engineer kits

 

Had them myself.

 

Adrian

[Guest outtolunch]

That sounds like a Philips electronic engineer kits

 

Had them myself.

 

Adrian

 

googled for images of them and yes that was it, must have been a EE5 or EE8 as I don't remember having a speaker just the earpiece

[Guest arf!!]

OR you could try this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MIG-19-FIGHTER-PILOT-LEATHER-FLIGHT-HELMET-1-/260964254947?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc2ae84e3 just connect your ipod to the built in speekers.