old timers help!!!!!!!!!!!!

[theysawyoucomin']

looking for the oldest cub book out there and the earliest reference to crystal radios in a cub scout or boy scout book.

 

 

Will it even be in the next edition?!?!?!?!?!?

 

I know this has nothing to do with wood badge but this is were the web site "fossils" hangout.

 

Can anybody give testimony to their battery free wireless wonder?

[dsteele]

I'm pretty sure I don't like being referred to as a "fossil," but then again, I don't usually haunt this forum. The term old timer caught my eye, but only because of the 31 years of BSA tenure I have . . and I'm only 39 years old.

 

I don't know when crystal radios first came into print in Cub Scout or Boy Scout handbooks . . .

 

But I do know you can purchase a crystal radio kit from your Scout catalog or Scout shop. Just ask for item number ww17288. I found it on www.scoutstuff.org

 

Unc.

[theysawyoucomin']

Please don't take offense to the fossil thing. I am in fact 3 years older than you.I know it was in our bear book as kids. I am looking for a xerox copy of something from the 1940's.

 

Looking for history for a Pow wow class next March. This is probably this most forgotten elective in the book.

 

And thank you, yes I have seen them at the Scout store but you can gather the materials for yourself and save about 33% and get the cost down to $8 a cub.

 

thank you for your 31 years of service.

 

Now any historical book collectors or really old scouters out there?

[dsteele]

No offense was truly taken. I'd be careful of the term fossil, though -- it casts a wider net than usually intended.

 

Especially when one is feeling particularly old

 

I wish you luck in your search. I would suggest looking for Ham radio operators who may well have begun by building crystal radios from scratch.

 

Unc.