Greetings from Melbourne! After being intrigued, as a child, with my uncle's home-made single-slider crystal set made in the late 1920s (I still have it), the fascination with crystal sets, and then valve radios, has remained with me. Radios taken on board: Stewart-Warner 5-valve, Atwater Kent 20 Big Box, Atwater Kent 35, 3-valve home-made "coffin", (using an ARBE-III as power supply for most vave sets), a couple of dozen crystal sets in various pattens, a clutch of associated literature. Also interested in 78rpm records, especially jazz; radio-transcription records and techniques of digitising them. Cheers to all, John.

Welcome to V-R.

my uncle's home-made single-slider crystal set made in the late 1920s (I still have it)

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Welcome to the forums, John.

As is often said, any collection is a good collection and there are some fine 1920s radios in that list.

This week I have changed the e-mail address for submitting photos though the old address will still work for the time-being. I have too many e-mail addresses and will be shrinking that number down to just one to simplify things at this end. If you'd like some photos embedded in your post, feel free to submit as GTC suggested.

It is amazing what causes people to kick off their collecting. I was always tinkering with solid state electronics as a kid and was always in Bill Edge Electronics (one of Jaycar's predecessor businesses), Dick Smith, David Reid and Tandy buying bits and pieces. I never gave a lot of thought to the valve telly my parents were using but did fall in love with radios when I happened by a console one day and began collecting when Electronics Australia and Silicon Chip magazines each started publishing a Vintage Radio column. The number of antique shops that were still around back at those times made this easy.

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In parallel with my interest in valve radios, I also have a few transcription records including some 16 inch inside start. A long time friend spent his entire working life with Grace Gibson, so they are all her programs.
I have given a couple of talks in our supported living village and the old dramas and comedies have gone down very well with the residents, (70 to 90 yo).
Harold