{"id":7738,"date":"2009-05-21T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/real-hams-make-their-own-crystals\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:25:38","slug":"real-hams-make-their-own-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/real-hams-make-their-own-crystals\/","title":{"rendered":"REAL Hams Make Their Own Crystals&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiSkYq9G242xm_zzG4WDbn9Kj-bBZyJM3r7kEBpsef_S5gVgZAhIGoEgCcp8f58QiLVrQhS9DWBpoO73Zy9Pv45ivfkPJwNWtjvAcvMN_tT4lJu1sy1NDQJYwGCH9_QiIptMDVbIWT-qac\/s1600-h\/DSC_0436_004.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC_0436_004.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338122046987431906\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;\">Bill: You say you buy your crystals from the electronics store?<\/span> <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;\"> Real homebrewers grind their own crystals. <\/span> <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-weight: bold;\"> See attachments. Russ<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After reading this I was feeling like a complete APPLIANCE OPERATOR. But wait a second Russ &#8212; that&#8217;s a KIT! Real homebrewers don&#8217;t need KITS to make their own crystals! And remember, you are talking to a guy who has used iron pyrite and a phosphor bronze to detect radio waves. That means I have homebrewed my own DIODES! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the cool pictures Russ. Those were the days&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC_0439_007.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC_0439_007.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338123458435076498\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgVLkULLFpmDxh87Cdh2jLMGZ3iCZsRGY75QhjjmBxSMOZnSBpCf3yRGTJU5heFOhCBXerMq19ltgvTtrum9SGN5lCEO_BB3WZy4hKcym9eGJpyWw7F5Ks4nelUeGzpAEvQcDNwhS574lA\/s1600-h\/DSC_0448_016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/DSC_0448_016.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338123671231401778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill: You say you buy your crystals from the electronics store? Real homebrewers grind their own crystals. See attachments. Russ After reading this I was feeling like a complete APPLIANCE OPERATOR. But wait a second Russ &#8212; that&#8217;s a KIT! Real homebrewers don&#8217;t need KITS to make their own crystals! And remember, you are talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/real-hams-make-their-own-crystals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;REAL Hams Make Their Own Crystals&#8230;.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7742,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}