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Tune in Your Favorite AM Stations! Safe, Solderless, Educational, and Fun!
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- Great Introduction to Electronics and Radio Science.- Receive real broadcast radio!
- No Soldering required.
- Quality Elenco Electronics Kit.
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By R. Layne (St. Louis, MO USA)
My son needed to build a crystal diode radio for the Communications Merit Badge in the Boy Scouts. I searched the internet to find a good price and this was it. The instructions were fairly easy to understand and my son built it himself without supervision. But he was unable to get it working. I took a look at it and found that the problems he had were primarily due to incorrectly orienting the kit's chassis to the drawing. Maybe colored springs would make it easier to know what connects where but I can't fault them for that, there needs to be some challenge. The real issue I have with the radio is it doesn't pull in radio stations very well.
From my own experimentation I grounded the kit correctly and hung the antenna at its full height. I could only find one radio station and it was so quiet I could just hear the peaks of the conversation. I went over the connection two more times to ensure that I hadn't shorted anything (a real problem with spring clips) and never achieved any better reception. However the radio worked just enough for my son to get his merit badge.
I have built these radios when I was a kid and they actually worked well. I think this needs to be re-engineered to improve the sensitivity and increase the volume coming out of the ear phone.
By J. Alberto
This toy is fun to put together, and fun to use. I enjoy using this radio, because from the very beginning it caught my attention. I recommended for parents to buy and kids to use.
By James Lamorte (Houston, TX)
I purchased this for my cub scout den. The boys had a great time putting it together and learning. However, it didn't work. We tried our best to tune into Tokyo with no luck.
By Luis A. Carrillo (Detroit, Michigan)
-Overall a good product, I just need to complain about the headset that came with it, I had to replace with another set to make it work.
By envchemist (Columbia, SC USA)
But not wonderfully well. And then what do you do? It's a one afternoon toy. Then it sits in the corner and collects dust. It's not good enough to really listen in. I wish the old Heath kits were still around. I hear they no longer exist. At least with that you got something worthwhile.
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