BUILD AN OCEAN-SPANNING
CRYSTAL RECEIVER
PX reception with a totally passive circuit
BY HOWARD D. LASH
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radio suitable only for short-range re- of interest Inductively couse
ception, 4 properly designed crystal aircore inductor £2, forming ne ne
Ze! can teceive signals from thousands trarsformer that has a tuned eine
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im l-meter international broadcast the sesondary are demodulated by
hands and can bs moditiod for other germanium detector Dl, INAO,
{requercies, It employs no ments of diode connected aeroat Lining pone
geal ‘ampliiation, The author's BPS and BP Essptones TRIG
Prototype, in use near Chicago with a nected across binding ponte G'S so
180-foot longwire antenna and an BPS, have high-impedance clemens
‘arth stovd, regularly provides good that transduce the demadulnted weet
reception of Rudi South Alrica, the form intoan audio outpet
BBC. Deutsche Welle. ané other Capacitor C28 isolates the tuned
shortwave brondcasters. Although the itcult" somewhat Irom grounds
Broest doesn" generate an earspi- make it more selective Addiioalls,
fing audio ouxput and lacks the micro: because the capacitive renctanees of
tolrlevel scmitivity and sharp velee- Cid, CIB and C2# are smulicn ap
tivity of today’s communications re- high frequencies, there is lees ice