[ARC5] Crystal Question

[Robert Eleazer]

I did some looking on that website where the B-26 radio compartment pictures are and found that someone has asked an interesting question.

It seems they salvaged some parts from some warbird crash sites in Florida and found some radio crystals. The one he shows looks like it is out of an SCR-522 . The guy who found them wants to use these to make a WWII style "foxhole radio" crystal radio receiver and is asking for help on how to do that.

It never occurred to me that a radio crystal might work as a detector in a crystal set. Is this possible? And did the improvised crystal sets in WWII use radio crystals? I guess that crystals from downed aircraft and wrecked tanks were probably available on the battlefield in WWII. 

Thanks

Wayne

WB5WSV