Good job guy. Anyone can spend money and buy a receiver and lots of other guys can spend lots of money buying many parts to build a complex receiver. But you've demonstrated how well and selective such a simple circuit functions. It looks like fun too.

I used to fetch in Emerly Moore TV transmisions on a crystal set in 80s so you could pick up anything with right coil and ariel

I just made a cool addition to my CB xtal set, an optional 12V red LED lamp connected to the audio plug. I just hook up a simple 4 foot wire antenna When I transmit on my regular CB the LED lights up real bright due to the voltages generated in the XTAL set by My strong CB signal transmission . I will be making a new vid on it soon.

Great job man !!!!!! I listen that big power station on channel six in the Bahia estate when the propagation is good.....greats from Brazil

The gauge number of turns and spacing makes a difference for it to work right.

Incredible, especially seeing how little parts the are. I always love simple and reliable.

That was a crazy background music

This time I used bare copper common house wire. About. 10 turns on a 7/8 deep socket with the tuner at the center tap down and a 9v battery powered fender mini deluxe guitar amp. Tends to wanna pick up FM BCB but with the capacitor. Half shut was getting skip talk of a bunch of truckers telling each other to shut up and that one another radio is too loud.

Super cool project - Now on the hunt to build one. Thanks for sharing!

Add a Parts List to the description. Not everyone owns a guitar amp. I played percussion. A simple speaker design could work. Does wire gauge size matter? I appreciate what you did. You could have reached a broader range of viewers new to HF/VHF (RF) communications here.

When I was a kid I wanted to build a "Crystal Television." It would be a very low power standard TV with a power supply that derived energy from the RF TV signal. Having a degree in electronics I think this is doable if you live close enough to the transmission tower.