7 Transistor AM Radio Kit

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by captainmoody

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.

The Radio Shack kits were still around in the early 90s when I was a kid. They may have been different though; plastic sides, the rest of it cardboard and springs for solderless connections. I built two AM/short wave units; both quit in short order. I'd like to know what I did wrong, if anything. Then of course there was the crystal radio that didn't come with enough wire to make a proper tuning coil. It limped along anyway, and was totally awesome to me back then.