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Tarnished Silver as a Crystal Radio Detector

vu2nan

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A fully tarnished, shiny black silver artefact was tried out as a detector in place of the germanium transistor in my series-tuned, shunt-fed crystal radio.

Fortunately the presence of an untarnished spot facilitated the metal to metal connection.

A length of pencil 'lead' was used to probe the tarnished portion to locate the 'sweet spot'.

More details at

https://nandustips.blogspot.com/2019/08/tarnished-silver-as-crystal-radio.html

73,

Nandu.
 


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