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Author: Jerry Avins
Date: Mar 6, 2007 13:40
... transistor, but point contact. Why? because that was an easy extension of the cats-whisker crystal. The day that point-contact transistors were announced to the lay world --... high school -- I made one for myself. I used the pellet in a surplus 1N21B radar diode and two cat's whiskers. I had a working oscillator before bed time. Knowledge is power (fleapower in that case). Jerry -- ...
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