1920s battery radios....how do they work?

[Kamakiri]

I'll give that a shot.....

See, the reason for all of this is that I'm going to be working on a Radiola III. Might be some nights when my wife is doing whatever, that I might want to emerge from the basement and sit in the living room and recline on the couch with the radio on a small table and put the headphones on. That's not going to be very easily done if I have to string a huge antenna....and my living room is on the driveway side of the house and the front. Not really conducive to a long antenna, and what if I decide I want to move to the other side of the couch or another room? This is why I want to make it more "portable".

And I'm guessing, why more people don't express an interest in these dinosaurs. If there were an easier route here, I'd be willing to bet that more people would express an interest in operating one.

In that case, adequate is good enough because the station I'd want to listen to is a short distance from me.