Look what else I found while cleaning the house yesterday: a Hallicrafters S-38! 😍

I built my first working transmitter when I was 12. Two years earlier had learnt Morse code and started building an AM receiver: went to an electronics store and asked for a "Leyden jar", which was what I thought capacitors were called, based on an old encyclopedia I was reading. Needless to say, I ended up drawing a schematic to get what I wanted.

The pictured #radio was acquired a few years later.