1921 Westinghouse Aeriola Jr. Crystal Radio
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Published 2024-01-04
All Comments (9)
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Beautiful Radio. On my bucket list to obtain.
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Very cool. It’s beauty is in its simplicity.
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I would liked to have watched you tune the radio, both with the variometer and finding a sensitive spot on the crystal. I have always wondered just how tricky it was to tune the old radios.
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That design makes a lot of sense. The selectivity won't be great but in an era with few stations, that was not an issue. Breaking the band into ranges and the tuning with the variable inductance would work well. The long handle on the tuning adjustment was an easy way to allow accurate setting.
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What is the length of antenna?
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🙋♂️👍73!
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really aeriola jr lol i guess they wasn't thinking when they named that radio or they had dirty minds like me
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Hello! I made a crystal radio with a synchronous detector (BF998 with shorted gates). I had a 15 meters of wire (V- antenna). To improve quality factor and for tuning on a station I used a long ferrite rod. There was not any litz wire. But the results was excellent - a sensetivity was very good. The crystal set with two coupled variable inductors had a quite big selectivity in MW band. I think - the mosfet detector can much improves characteristics of this antique radio
