grid-leak

Updated: April 30, 2025

I made a crystal receiver and was able to hear the Greek Royal Navy station at Votanikos SXA and the old station at Thiseon in Athens itself, which was still a spark station. There just was nothing else to hear. I acquired a Philips 'E' type valve and built a grid-leak detector circuit, but all I got was silence.

Norman F. Joly - The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view