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I included that hoping to keep it light. Thanks

Let me know how you get on.

Have a happy whatever you do this time of year.

@ Merry Christmas in advance. Can I have your mail so we can talk better?

I am glad you found it useful. It is a narrow audience but some people seem to have liked my videos. I may do more if I can get over being so lazy.

@kensmith5694 I did one variable capacitor your way, tomorrow I shall do one coil 25 plus 90 turns for arial/ earth and tuning coil in 45mm PVC tube. Hope it works for medium wave.

Yes on the other end of that shelf there is a 1961 Popular Electronics but you can't make out the title at that angle and Windows-95 install boxes on the next shelf up.

You are correct. Well spotted. I spent so much time on other bits that that one got away from me. This weekend, I will have to correct it.

put up a corrected version ruclips.net/video/0p3-3ClptBg/видео.html RUclips won't allow the replacement of videos

@@kensmith5694 Thanks. RUclips makes it hard for corrections.

RUclips lost my reply. I am going to edit this one step by step 1) Thankyou 2) I think I should add sound if I do it again 3) "Balun" is short for "Balanced to unbalanced converter transformery thing-a-ma-bob" 4) Yes I have many 5) I may do that in a bit] 6) I didn't save any money. I was using the $1.00 baluns and saw a video saying that the $10.00 ones work a lot better. I bought them to put it to the test and my results suggest that I wasted about $30. I did the conclusions with the $10 ones still up in the attic. I bought 3 of them so I could do it that way. I hope I saved someone some money.

@@kensmith5694 1) You're welcome. 2) That will be fun! 3) I saw that, but I still have no idea what it's for. 4) Are they all the same color? 5) Let me know!

@@UkeCan1 I wore all light colored ones to make it a little less obvious that the segments were shot way out of order. Some of the sound was also done out of order. The voice-over up in the attic was done at my PC. The park was a different day.

@@kensmith5694 Haha, I don't usually do any editing of multiple takes ... but if I did, you wouldn't know ... I just have like 15 of the same exact top. 🤣🤣🤣

The small capacitance is small enough. The tuned circuit has 100s of pF on it so a difference in capacitance is not an issue at these levels 1N34 = 1pF at 1V back bias 1N5711 = 2pF at 0V back bias I found the distortion not to be much of an issue when listening with my ears. Yes, my ear phone is almost entirely a capacitive load. The audio output will appears as a series resistance to that capacitance. The question seemed an important one to look into

I just uploaded something new you may also like ruclips.net/video/rAkaepFxdxc/видео.html The theme is peaceful

Thank you but I think mother nature gets the credit. It came out good for being the first outdoors video I tried.

@@kensmith5694 I think you did great!

Visit the mountains while you are still young. When you go out for a hike, hike up hill. That way the return to base is a lot easier.

@@kensmith5694 I have been isolating for 4 months. I went out once a few days ago, and I liked it better being back in my apartment. This world scares me the way it is right now. I just hope that we could win the election so I can have some of my peace and sanity back. I hope you enjoy your day! ☮

@@DianePeace420 Take care. I have started work on a new video. It will take me a long time to get it done

Google translate did poorly. Do you suggest I add spanish text? I don't know spanish. Would google translate from english help?

Part of my goal was to not modify any of the plumbing parts. Your observations are correct[1]. Also if I had more gap between the wires, the stray capacitance would be less and I could likely have used 5 or 6 turns. [1] I did make the loops over the T joints so they all went around the same direction. This meant I added some inductance in the process.

Yes technically it is a collection of antennas that have been combined but when you go to the store to buy one it is called "antenna". I tried to keep things as simple as possible. Hopefully I didn't make them simpler than possible.

cool! im just a jargon nerd

Maybe I could use one of the other detector types. It is worth thinking about it. lead sulfide has been done.

I made the crystal radio videos because I saw that some people who were new to the game were having trouble. Initially it was going to be just one video but it grew.

I put up a corrected version ruclips.net/video/0p3-3ClptBg/видео.html There was a bit of a dumb error where I said the null of reception was the wrong direction

The one with the cats whisker is the real 1N34. People can put bands on anything

The real 1N34's were made with titanium whiskers that are not bonded to the germanium, but only pressure bonded. I don't think anyone really makes those anymore. I think today they use a high current pulse to bond to the germanium which has more capacitance and is really a PN junction.

Yes, I think the headphones were designed to be a 600 Ohm load. This would make them good for crystal radio,

I just put up a corrected version ruclips.net/video/0p3-3ClptBg/видео.html There was a bit of a dumb error where I said the null of reception was the wrong direction

I hope and think that there is a new generation coming up. I plan on doing 2 more about the crystal radio topic but don't hold your breath waiting because I am lazy about making videos.

I would rate it as not bad for a rainy afternoon.

About 2K was needed with the earphone I was using. A good 10K pot would likely let you tune it as needed. There really is no optimum for all frequencies. It is always a trade off with a crystal earphone. My goal here was to make it simple enough that those new to electronics would get the idea and then experiment further. It is how my career started.

WRT frequencies, I was referencing the RF frequency in case there was any variation across the band WRT the diode response. Thanks for responding.@@kensmith5694

If I can motivate my self enough to do the video I should have already done and that other one I should have already done then I think I should make something about improvised detectors.

To measure the leakage put about 3V from a supply onto a series combination of a 100K resistor and a back biased 1N34. Measure the small voltage on the 100K and do some math. Your meter will be at least a 1M in parallel with the 100K so the measure should be good.

Expect a 2nd reply if I find a place you buy less than a boxcar full of 1N34

@@kensmith5694 Have you actually tried this with your diodes and if so, how closely did they compare to the leakage in the data sheet? That alone would make a great short video!

@@tenlittleindians No, I didn't try it but it seems reasonable to me. If I do try it, I will pin a comment on the topic. I think my next video will be about how to make a 4 foot by 4 foot tuned indoor antenna for xtal radio. This won't happen for a while because I am very-very lazy.

I don't see anything on my email. What email address did you try?

That's a pretty park in your other video. Milpitas? It has comments turned off.

@@UkeCan1 I am going to go fix the comments problem. I wasn't aware that they were off

@@UkeCan1 The city is Milpitas. The park is Ed Levin.

@@kensmith5694 Ah, yes - my one-word question was abbreviation for, "I see an Ed Levin Park in Milpitas, and I think that's the one in your video, is that correct?" Maps apps are a wonderful thing. 😁

@@UkeCan1 Yes, if you follow Calaveras from Milpitas its self up into the hills, the part of Ed Levin in the video is on your right. Off to the left there is another section of park behind the golf course that I may do a video about at some point.