[Milsurplus] Foxhole Radio - conclusion

[C.Whitaker]

de Clete
It works with the point of the safety pin gently
touching the blue on the blade.
Are blue blades available?
I tried this:   One detector is made of Carborundum,
And the High School Encyclopedia said that was
what Stone Masons used to smooth up concrete.
I broke off a small piece, but it didn't work.
Then, Galena is made of Lead and Sulfur.  Mixing
the two in the basement furnace melted one, and
burnt the other.  Making Galena didn't work, either.
The razor blade and safety did, but touchy.
73  Clete
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On 8/6/2012 11:58 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:
> Has anyone ever tried building one of these foxhole radios?
>
> I started my journey inot electronics, like may others, by building crystal radios.
>
> I got my crystals from a neighbor who was an electronic technician . My first crystal was in a bakelite case. I forget the number but I still have it
> somewhere. The tapped coil was built on a schellaced toilet paper roll. My headset was a high impedance crystal earpiece.
>
> I lived in Queens New York at the time and could easily pick up WCBS 880.
>
> I read about the foxhole radio which used a Gillette Blueblade and the pencil graphite as a detector. The graphite was held with a safety pin.
> I got hold of the blade and graphite and tried it but could never get it to work.
>
> Has anyone hasd success with this type of detector? If I could get my hands on a Blueblade I'd try it again.
>
> Mike N2MS
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hue Miller <kargo_cult at msn.com>
> To: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, tetrode at googlegroups.com, Wireless-Set-No19 at yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 22:54:12 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] Foxhole Radio - conclusion
>
> The opinion was also expressed that soldiers have often have time on their
>
> hands, where boredom is an issue: thus, they would relish some activity
>
> like the opportunity to build 'foxhole radios'.
>
> <snip>
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