Crystal sets? Any interest?

[Murphyv310]

Would be of use for our radio Amateur club and a group we are going to encourage at the YMCA.

Maybe 60 years ago, or 80 years ago. I think now something more advanced and portable, thus not needing 20m of washing line aerial is the thing.

Even in 1960s I wasn't impressed by a crystal set, though I built a few. Now and R1155, WS 88 on your belt, No 19 set and a C12 set was quite something else then. As were tape recorders.

We are trying in both cases to get people and youngsters to see and feel how things have developed, a bit like what Lucien Nunes was trying to achieve.
I do have one late 20s crystal set and a nice big chunk of Galena I've had for donkeys.
Of course these days all folk think of is the sound of the till making money. So count me out.