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DUAL TUNED COILS AM CRYSTAL RADIO RECEIVER W/ TUNABLE TRAP FOR BCI
$ 52.53
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I make these from scratch, so please allow about 8 to 10 days for shipment, once purchased. Most any reasonable color is possible. If you have a preference, please inquire when purchasing.This is a little overkill for a crystal radio receiver, but I wanted something that was a good performer. We have a local 50K watt AM station that renders a simple crystal set pretty useless without a tunable trap. So this set has a tunable trap control right on the front panel that covers the full am spectrum, just in case you have a similar situation with BCI where you live. I find that even though our local station is really powerful and pretty invasive, the trap will null out about 95% of the interference, reducing it to a tolerable level.
All this is possible with one jumbo size plug-in coil form that I have custom made for this radio. The color of the magnet wire may vary, depending on what I have in stock, so it could be red, green or copper color.
The circuit uses two L/C tuned circuits, which are paralleled to one front panel control, using a dual 265pf capacitor. A separate tuning capacitor adjusts the antenna coupling.
Headphone volume is quite adequate for most medium power am stations, with good selectivity that is made possible by the dual tuned circuit, along with the adjustable BCI trap.
This receiver requires a high impedance 2 to 4k ohm inductive or piezo headphones (not included in this listing).
The size of the radio chassis is about 6.0 x 3.5 x 2.25 inches. This is similar to some of my other crystal sets, but I'm finding that a fine tuning control for the am broadcast band is really unnecessary, so this radio has the 3 controls on the front panel, which are main tuning, BCI trap adjustment and antenna coupling. It does not have the extra 4th control on the rear of the chassis like some of my other listings.
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