Category: Nostalgia

  • My first radio experiment

    My first radio project was a crystal radio which was similar to the above picture. As a poor student, the selling price of the kit was too much for me. Fortunately I found a article on building crystal radios from an electronics magazine. I copied the circuit, bought low cost components from the surplus market,…

  • Hello Electronics/Radio Hobbyists!

    If you are a hobbyist and interested to know the evolution of radio/electronics for the past 50 years, you are in the right place. Don’t worry, I will not bore you with well-known history, which has been detailed in many good books. Instead I will give detailed circuit description to the radio receivers/transceivers I have…