9/10/2023 0 Comments Foxhole radio plans![]() ![]() ![]() To not know how the war is progressing in your absence is a form of torture in itself, and POWs do whatever they can to get information. Tales of torture, starvation, enslavement and indoctrination attend the history of every nation’s prison camps to some degree, even in the recent past with the supposedly civilizing influence of the Hague and Geneva Conventions.īut even the most humanely treated POWs universally suffer from one thing: lack of information. With death in combat, the suffering is over, but with internment in a POW camp, untold agonies may await. Of all the horrors visited upon a warrior, being captured by the enemy might count as the worst. When the apocalypse comes, you’ll thank us.Ĭontinue reading “A Radio For The Apocalypse” → Posted in Wireless Hacks Tagged crystal, foxhole radio, radio Need a quickly cobbled together AM radio? Have some wire and a penny? Yeah, watch the video below the break, and you’ll know how to make it happen. If a penny has green oxide, it’s likely a candidate. Though, note, not all pennies have that necessary coating of copper. Surprisingly, copper oxide is a semiconductor, and the surface oxidation on a penny is enough to form a rudimentary diode. All that’s really needed is a coil and something to work as a diode. This example uses a variable capacitor for tuning, but that’s technically optional. We’ve covered foxhole radios, stereotypical radios that are cobbled together from found parts during wartime. There’s been a spate of apocalypse related articles over the last few weeks, but when I saw an AM radio made from a hand-wound coil and an oxidized British penny, I couldn’t help but be impressed. ![]()
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