And when I had a go at it, it was one of the projects you could build with a "few components on a piece of cardboard"-kits.
It consisted of a coil w ferrite core, trimcap, headphones and a _Germanium_Diode_ (the magical ingredient ; ) At least it worked! Regards, Sunil From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Vo]:LENR N.A.E new non-episode Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:50:13 -0600 I remember trying to use an old razor blade for such a set (instead of a crystal).... and a coil around an Oatmeal box. You could also just use a tree and some nails for a good ground. .... oh the good old days. Dennis Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:10:44 -0400 Subject: Re: [Vo]:LENR N.A.E new non-episode From: [email protected] To: [email protected] The state of LENR Pd/D technology is reminiscent of the state of radio back at the turn of the 20th century. At that time, a crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set or cat's whisker receiver, was a very simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio. It needs no battery or power source and runs on the power received from radio waves by a long wire antenna. It gets its name from its most important component, known as a crystal detector, originally made with a piece of crystalline mineral such as galena. This component is now called a diode. As a youngster, I can remember spending many frustrating hours moving the cat’s whisker to and fro endlessly across the face of the crystal hoping to get some sound from the air. It was so long ago, I do not remember if I ever succeeded. The pain of the search has clung to my soul as a original sin of stubbornness. I just remember endless frustration of constant trial and error inspired and confident that some other amazing people had gotten that dammed thing to work. If they did it, by golly I was going to do it too no matter how long it took or what the price paid in suffering.
