I started with a flyer from Summer school that showed how to make a crystal
set. Simple stuff, took a week or so to gather the materials and wire it all
up with a wood burning converted soldering iron, hi. We did it on a bread
board that Mom said was too marked up. Used a telephone hand held receiver, a
cold water ground and a wire somewhere in the trees, and WE HAD AUDIO. We
could hear the AM stations quite well. Then came the Regen receiver out of
1940's Popular Mechanic article. We had CW.......... Thats all it took for
this ten year old in 1948.........I was hooked......
Mel, K6KBE
From: Alan Geller via Elecraft <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Suggestions for Introducing a 10-year-old to Amateur
Radio and Electronics
Here is one more approach:
I took a pine 1X2 and cut it into 3” pieces ; then screwed a couple of
Fahnstock clips into the
tops of each one near the ends. I then selected an assortment of 2 node
components plus a
pile of 6” cut copper wire pieces.
Whoopee…we could then make stuff…doorbell plus switch, simple diode rcvr, then
one with a
single transistor audio amp plus speaker (needs 3 NODE block), morse code key
and buzzer
etc etc
Tiny stuff can be intimidating…so the blocks fit his way of playing and we were
off and running.
A regen rcvr on a board for 40M can be a jump step and its all fun.
Alan/K6ADG
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