Materials Needed

• Toilet Paper Tube
• Safety Pin
• Razor Blade
• A Bunch of Thumb Tacks
• Magnet Wire
• A Wooden Board to Put It All On/li>
• wire For Ground and Antenna

Step by Step Procedure

Step 1

Wind the magnet wire around the toilet paper tube by hand 120 times. You can attach it with tape before you wind it up or put a hole in it and tie it on. That will keep it from slipping as you wind it up.

Step 2

Use Paper Clips and Thumbtacks to put everything together according to the schematic. Your detector should have a cat whisker and a razor blade. For that, you have a safety pin and some pencil lead. Hook the magnetic wire both to the antenna and the ground and hook it up to some earphones like you see below.

Step 3

Make sure you ‘blue’ the razor blade by exposing it to extreme heat with a blowtorch or another heating item.

Step 4

Position yourself by the window so your antenna can go out the window and you can hook up your ground wire to a radiator to serve as your ground. Take the cat whisker and adjust it. Through the earphones, you can now listen in to the radio.

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