[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

The first 'radio' that I actually owned was a crystal set. It must have been the late 40's, my father must have got me the bits and I built it in an old cigar box.
You poked a spring loaded pointer around on the crystal until you found a signal. You never knew who you'd get and you could rarely find them again and the signal was awful.
But it was magic!

Hoody Blell Gordon, crystal radio's were obsoloty by then, I remember my father telling me he made one when he was a teenager, and that was during WW1.