A crystal radio is basically a high Q resonator tied to an antenna and an envelope detector. These days the envelope detector is a point contact diode such as a 1N34 Germanium diode. The resonant ...

A crystal radio is basically a high Q resonator tied to an antenna and an envelope detector. These days the envelope detector is a point contact diode such as a 1N34 Germanium diode. The resonant ...

Figure 1 Slope detection method where a bandpass slope below the resonant peak is used to create a slope-induced amplitude modulation where a simple envelope detector can be used to recover the ...