TECLA Thirty
Thomas E. Clark Co.
Early wireless age crystal set with code on label.
This webpage is for Crystal Radio enthusiasts, both users and
collectors.
Some pictures of crystal radios are on display below the Links.
Click on the titles below to jump to the following
pages:
Headphone
Museum Gallery Pictures of
collectable
headphones from my collection. Several pages of close up photos of
vintage
headphones. Over 100 different headphone pictured here.
Headphone Heaven (Headphones for Sale) Vintage headphones for crystal set use or just for collecting. Several new sets listed including Brandes, Baldwin, and Western Electric.
Vintage and Crystal Radios for sale Some quality homebrews and reproductions.
1920's Radio Parts and Test Equipment Tuning condensers, coils, tube sockets, etc. Build your own battery tube regenerative radio, plus various test equipment such as soldering irons, etc.
BOOKS And Vintage Radio Magazines for Sale Vintage radio repair, and now with some vintage Radio News and related magazines.
My Big Fat Greek Vacation We finally took a real vacation in August of 2009 and this is a little blog about our holiday there, plus have recently added subsequent family events, water skiing, surfing, and my daughter's wedding in May 2011.
Steampunk Headphones Project Page Modify vintage headphones to use on modern audio devices.
LINKS
A
page
of
links
to related radio sites including my favorite crystal
radio
sites.
A Tale of Two Tube Amps This is a page on the making of a couple of stereo tube amps that I am building for special friends and relatives. One uses a single ended 12AX7, 6V6, 5Y3G design, and the other is a 7 tube push pull design using 6SN7, VT-25, and 5U4G tubes.
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My Dog Belle This is just a fun page about our dog Belle. Sort of a Dog Blog. She is no match for Marley in the recent hit novel, but still a lot of fun. April 2010 added a couple of photos of her litter of mutt puppies.
Nixie Tube Clock Project Slightly outside of my usual interests, but am documenting this fun project building an old fashioned Nixie clock.
New Hobby, Pen Making Oh No, another new hobby. Just took up pen turning, a fun and inexpensive hobby with rewarding results.
Western Electric 509W Restoration Project This page shows the steps in cleaning up a nice vintage pair of Western Electric 509W headphones.
Tube Amp Project Page This is a page documenting a project I got started on after I restored a Sparton 1568 console radio with a 2A3 power amplifier. That Sparton sounded to nice that I looked around and decided to build an integrated stereo 2A3 single ended triode tube amplifier. This is a long project, took about 4 months just to get a final version of the schematic and collect the basic parts. Just finished the amp and will get the pictures up soon.
Heathkit CR-1 and Miller 595 Page This page shows the circuit of the famous Heathkit CR-1 and Miller 565 / 595 crystal radios and a project in progress to recreate these sets with parts available today.
Headphone Repair Page This page will be expanded to include remagnetizing headphone magnets, replacing pin tips, cord splicing etc. Illustrated to help you do it yourself.
Jackson Bell Radios These are some of my other radios on display. Jackson Bell made elegant figural cathedral radios in the early 1930's. These have nothing to do with crystal sets but I like them anyway.
Build A Crystal Radio or a 1 Tube Amplifier This page has the circuit diagram for building a simple crystal radio and a 1 tube amplifier that can be used to drive a horn speaker or amplify weak signals for headphones. Includes a schematic plus a component diagram for easy assembly. The crystal radio Plans are easy enough to use for a Science Fair project or a scout project.
Resource Page Links and addresses/phone numbers of the parts suppliers I use to obtain parts. Parts that I don't have can be found at one of these sites.
Email to scott@oldheadphones.com
These are pictures of items from my collection of crystal radios and
other early radio items. Items on this page are for display. Click on
the
above line marked "Crystal radios for sale" or others to see items for
sale.
You can click on a few selected pictures for larger photo and click
"back" to return.
Most of the below sets can be seen in Maurice Seivers book "Crystal
Clear", Volumes 1 and 2.
Westinghouse Aeriola Jr.
This is one of my favorite sets. Circa 1922, a good quality crystal
set with a two mineral Perikon detector. The little brother of the
Aeriola
Sr. one tube radio.
WECCO GEM
WECCO GEM crystal set
Simple slider and coil construction, variable inductance, no capacitor.
JUBILEE
Jubilee Crystal Set made in Omaha Nebraska, mid 1920's.
Another coil and slide tuned crystal set. Several sets of headphones
can plug into this radio.
Click on icon to calculate shipping charges via US Mail from my zipcode of 23320
Email to scott@oldheadphones.com
Germanium Diode Assortment
Five germanium signal diodes including a 1N-60, and 4 general purpose
germanium diodes. All 5 for $5 postpaid within the US. These are great
for building crystal radio projects. The 1N60 is particularly sensitive
to small signals.
Mounted Argentiferous Galena Crystals
These are excellent quality galena detector crystals mounted in Wood's
Metal for a 7/16 inch diameter mounted crystal. Made with fine
crystalline
argentiferous galena that is the best "rock" I have ever used. 3
for $12 includes shipping within the US by first class for
crystals
only. If you have bought crystals from other sources you may be
disappointed
with their performance. Not these! They work great and 100% of buyers
have
been thrilled with the results.
Mount
Your Own Crystals Click for instructions.
This page is an illustrated instruction page for mounting your own
minerals using materials similar to those shown above.
MRL Handbooks.
These handbooks were kindly supplied to me by MRL. They are $3 each.
HB-3 tells all about crystal detectors, including various minerals
and modern diodes.
HB-17 gives 20 of the most popular Modern Radio Labs crystal radio
circuits including the MRL-2 and MRL-2A. It also gives the coil details
for the wavetrap QRM coil.
You can reach MRL on the web at http://www.modernradiolabs.com
Phil's Old Radios Nice general radio website with a great crystal radio project for broadcast and shortwave reception.
Xtal Set Society National club with information, links to suppliers, books and items for sale. Join the great crystal radio discussion group there called Rap 'n Tap.
Skywaves
Al
Klase's
site
that
has some useful schematics and crystal radio building
projects including a shortwave crystal set.
Greg Farmer's
Crystal Radios Great site with a beautiful
collection of crystal radios and related early radios.
Dave's Homemade Radios Dave Schmarder has a great website that shows dozens of his creations of crystal radios and some battery operated tube sets including some shortwave sets. He has nice photos and schematics posted for each set. This is a great site to get ideas for how to build your own nice tube or crystal radio.
Ben Tongue's Crystal Radio Website This website had valuable details on crystal radio reception, impedance matching, and even schematics for building impedance determination equipment for comparing headphones of different impedances.
Pictures of Vintage Sets This site has some nice pictures of a fine collection of vintage sets. site has been down recently
Crystal
Radio
Resources A great "How To Do It" website for
constructing your own sets.This page has an extensive list of crystal
radio
links and is highly recommended as a resource for serious crystal radio
research. A MUST SEE for beginning builders and Science Fair Project
builders.
Tell Owen I said hello.
Crystal Radio Supply This is one of my favorite supplier for parts such as variable capacitors used to build crystal radios, and great prices too.
Peebles Originals This is Mike Peebles website with information about Crystal Radio, Tube & amp; Transistor Radio, Parts, Plans, Kits and other Items associated with "Nostalgic Radio Building".
Allens Web Page New site by a radio collector and boat builder, many radio items for sale here.
Gollum's Crystal Receiver World The First German crystal receiver website with many photos and hints about crystal radio construction, testing and use.
Lance's Crystal Radio Website Lance Borden's Crystal Radio Webapge with plans and kits for sale.
John's Radio Pages A great resource that has details about the early Miller high fidelity tuners.
Stay Tuned Take this hot link to a related page by a colleague who specialized in sound powered equipment. It has been recently expanded with dozens of crystal radio construction plans.This site is a MUST SEE!
Tom's Terrific Tuners This is a page by Tom Kipgen that has homebuilt crystal radios made with beautifully machined parts and true vintage looks, plus vintage looking wook knobs for building radio projects. Many high quality items for sale.
The Old Radio Builder This is a nice webpage showing vintage crystal radio projects, modern projects, and old radio restoration projects.
Jim Frederick's Crystal Radio Page This page has plans and kits to buy such as the high tech Hobbydyne crystal radio, tell Jim I sent you.
Play Things
of
Past Great source for all sorts of vintage radio
replacement parts including tubes, all types of transformers, knobs,
dials,
glass, belts, variable capacitors, coils and more. I can't think of
anything
not available here for an old radio and at great prices.
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Radio Museum A website dealing with all aspects of antique radios including display photos and schematic daigrams for antique radio enthusiasts, click on the icon above to jump to the Radiomuseum.
Ian Sanders' Crystal Radio Webpage
Dick Korf''s Handcrafted Detector Stand threepalms@prtel.com
Click this Email to Dick to order this item
Email to
scott@oldheadphones.com