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As you know if you’ve read even some of our first UD Reads book, All the Light We Cannot See, it’s possible to build a radio from random, scavenged parts, as long as you can find the necessary random, scavenged parts, as Werner does in the book. This is also essentially what Assistant Professor and Department Chair of Physics Jacob Moldenhauer did as well, as he prepared for the “Across the Core” lecture he gave to faculty and staff just before the beginning of the spring semester: He scavenged parts from the Physics Department, and built a radio.
“I wanted the audience to see an example of the types of radios Werner repaired and used. I also wanted the audience to see the basic components of a radio and how simply it works,” said Moldenhauer. “In the spirit of how I like to teach physics, experiential learning, I wanted the audience to be able to touch and play with a radio to experience its parts. You can’t do that very easily with a radio in a box. I think this approach made understanding what Werner did very accessible to everyone in the audience. Plus, building a radio is something I always wanted to do, but never got around to it; this lecture motivated me.”
The radios Werner works on, and the one built by Moldenhauer, are primarily shortwave
radios, with frequencies that fall between AM and FM. To build a radio like this,
you need a few basic parts:
You then combine these materials to fill the holes in a crystal lattice structure
(a diamond lattice). More specifically:
“Building a crystal radio out of household items.” scitoys.com, scitoys.com/homemade_radio.html.
Ashton Ellis, PhD, comes to the University of Dallas after nearly 10 years in fundraising at Hillsdale College.
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