[Milsurplus] OT: Foxhole Electronics

[Gene Smar]

Clete et al:

     You can find parts for a foxhole radio (if that's what you're asking about) at that www-thing: 260205528108 .  Not mine.

     I bought one a few years ago but have not tried building it yet.  I suppose I need another circular tuit.


73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F


 From: "C. Whitaker" <whitaker at pa.net>
Date: 2008/01/28 Mon AM 08:06:48 CST
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] OT: Foxhole Electronics

de WB2CPN
As a teenager I recall the war news about a radio
which used a blue blade and a small pointed wire
for a detector.  An Anzio Radio, they called it.
I can understand the razor blades being made
available, but I can't figure where the headsets
came from.  Maybe a EE-8.  In about 1938 I
saw a crystal detector receiver made by taking
a pair of headsets and replacing one of the
headsets with a small detector in series.
I can't imagine where the little detector came
from.   Later, and a couple of years older, I tried
to make a detector from lead and sulfur, then
carborandum like they use for finishing concrete.
No Joy.    73  Clete




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