On 2020-05-27 06:50 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
I had the same problem, except I got CFRB instead of CHUM. I lived roughly the same distance from both. I would have preferred CHUM. ;-)
Same basic tech but different experiential outcomes based on topography. I got my set by sending in cereal boxtops. A couple of years later a classmate of mine had a kit where the tuner actually worked for multiple stations. But his dad was an electrical engineer and helped him out with his kit, the parts for which, were definitely not from R. J. Kellogg's Battle Creek loyalty rewards centre like mine and maybe yours was.
No, my grandfather gave me a kit (I think it was called Erectronic) which was 15 different projects, the first of which was a crystal set. He originally gave it to an uncle, who showed little interest in it. The projects were assembled on a peg board, over which paper templates were laid and the various parts, mounted on plastic platforms, plugged into the holes and were connected with jumpers. The kit came with a 1U4 vacuum tube, IIRC and used a 1/2 volt and a 90V batteries. It could also be used to build a morse code transmitter and a voice transmitter, both of which interfered with local AM radios. ;-) I would have been around 10 or 11 when he gave me that kit.