7 Transistor AM Radio Kit

[captainmoody]

Anyone try building one of those $8 China AM radio kits?

I ended up purchasing one off fleabay, it was eight dollars including shipping from China!

The instructions were in Chinese, I had to figure out the symbols for the color coded IF transformers.. But that was easy enough, as they had them listed for the resistor color code.

Once assembled, it worked great and was a lot of fun to build.. The last one I built was in 1974.. It was an Archer Kit from Radio Shack, and it cost $10 then!

Basically, this is the same thing as the 70's Japanese kit. Only, it runs off 3v instead of 9.