Crystal Radio Kit, With Molded Choke Coils

No soldering required, featuring that "handmade look" with genuine, pre-drilled wood base and front panel.

This radio kit is perfect for parents, grandparents and teachers to build with kids! It is also a super starter kit for the beginning adult builder. Coils that require no winding, wire, variable tuning capacitor, other necessary components, and diode.

Easy parts layout guide provided for kids. Excellent performance for such a simple but, elegant classic receiver design. A nice addition for the advancing experimenter would be the the "Radios That Work for Free" book.

Size: 3-3/4x3-34/3-7/8 (antenna not included)

Before you buy, download the manual (5mb pdf)
#PO-001, Crystal Radio Kit, for Beginners, $27.50

PO-002 Crystal Radio Kit, With a Cylinder Coil

No soldering required, featuring that "handmade look" with genuine, pre-drilled wood base and front panel.

This radio kit, being the next step-up-kit, is perfect for parents, grandparents, and teachers to build with kids. It is also a super starter kit for the beginning adult builder. All parts included are coil form, wire, variable tuning capacitor, other necessary components and diode. Excellent performance for such a simple kit, but elegant classic receiver design.

A nice addition for the advancing experimenter would be the the "Radios That Work for Free" book.

Size: 3-3/4x3-34/3-7/8 (antenna not included)

Before you buy, download the manual (5mb pdf)
#PO-002, Crystal Radio Kit, for Advancing Builders, $27.50

PO-003 Crystal Radio Kit, With Spider Coil

No soldering required, featuring that "handmade look" with genuine, pre-drilled wood base and front panel.

This radio kit, with classic spider-web coil, is perfect for parents, grandparents, and teachers to build with kids. It is also a super starter kit for the beginning adult builder. All parts included are coil form, wire, variable tuning capacitor, other necessary components and diode. Easy parts layout guide provided for kids. Excellent performance from this unique and classic spider-web , high="Q" coil design.

A nice addition for the advancing experimenter would be the the "Radios That Work for Free" book.

Size: 3-3/4x3-34/3-7/8 (antenna not included)

Before you buy, download the manual (5mb pdf)
#PO-003, PO-003 Crystal Radio Kit for Advancing Builders, $27.50

This kit tunes the AM/BC band, and is a real classic in the typical design of the era of 1956. I picked this year as it was the beginning of my radio building interests at the age of 10, and just could-not wait until I could build a set with this, newly-innovated, "space-age" design. . .The Transistor!

Kit comes with all parts, instructions, and artwork to make this set look, act and feel, just like the "amazing transistor" did in the year: 1956. This kit is a newly modified, "third generation", of the original article that appeared in a newsletter article, I wrote, several years ago. This one is far the best in performance, looks and ease of assembly. "Third times a charm"!

The transistor that is included in this kit, being Germanium, is a much-improved unit, over what was available in 1956. In fact this transistor, is some of the later generations of the Germanium transistor, before being replaced with Silicon units. . . I still like the germanium types, and seldom build sets, using Silicon transistors. I love the '50s feel, and looks!

The set is basically a high-performance crystal radio detector, with one stage of transistor amplification, with volume control. It comes a few optional parts, with instructions that enable to get maximum sensitivity, and selectivity with your particular antenna/ground situation. Also included, is an earpiece, but set will match most headsets of higher impedances, and will drive a small amplifier, very ideally.

This set has a looks and feel of the set my dad bought for me, on my birthday. . .around 1956/57. Hope you have as much fun with this set as I certainly did, designing and building this replica and my original, as a kid.

Size: (antenna not included)

Before you buy, download the manual (2mb PDF)
#PO-1956, Germanium 1-Transistor, Radio Kit, $39.95

Antenna/Ground KitT

This is a basic kit, that can be used indoors or outdoors. 50'-Antenna wire, w/insulators on each-end, and tie-offs. 25'-Lead-in wire, and 25'-Ground wire, w/alligator clip, for easy attachment to an "Earth-Ground" source.

Comes with easy to follow instructions, and illustrations for ideas of indoor or outdoor use, plus ideas of installing more advanced set-ups, as you progress.

Before you buy, download the manual (3.25mb PDF)
PO-106 Antenna/Ground Kit, $19.95
$17.50 w/Kit Purchase