I am hoping to get Console to work with my first radio that I had at age 7.

Unless you are not much beyond teenager now it's not really practical. All the public data about SDRConsole is available on the site where you download it, "https://www.sdr-radio.com". You would have to use or add and use an IF tap. You will need something to act as a front end and sampler for input to SDRC. In my case the first radio I ever had was rather a unexciting simple vacuum tube radio with a 455 kHz IF and 550 kHz to 1600 kHz tuning range. The first SW radio I had was not much better, a Hallicrafters S38B. I might consider it with the R390A I still have. But, again, I'd be handicapping the far more capable and stable front ends I have for SDRC. So.... Maybe more information might be called for.

{o.o}  (Yeah, I am not being fair here. When I was seven I found myself wiring the reconstruction of my then deceased father's model railroad to feel closer to that void in my life. I made it work, too. That was over 70 years ago. So "my first radio" can cover a lot of ground. Hm, a contemporary "my first radio" would be a cell phone for most children. Where do you fit in this huge open ended range?)

Hi George!

I had one of those too! I was so excited that I took it to school and dangled the white antenna wire out the 2nd floor window while my teacher droned on about whatever.... "DAVID!  What is that white wire hanging out the window? You are not paying attention in class again, so I will have to let your parents know we are having a problem with you again! Always in trouble with something, I was! HaHa!

I was the paper airplane maker and match rocket launcher too, until the Principal intervened with a suspension for bad, bad Davey...... 

Dave Aichelman     N7NZH     Grants Pass, Oregon

Hahahaha. I had my own chair just outside of Mr McLaughlan’s office (school principal) I was there so often. We also use to bumper ride his old Mercedes home on snowy days.

They always threatened to tell my folks on parent teacher nights but my Dad would simply say, “he’s got straight A’s (which I did), maybe he’s bored (which I was). My Dad would just shrug. 

When I was in the 6th grade a classmate had noticed a strange device on a shelf in my bedroom. Let's say I was already considered to be a little weird at the time. Seems I had taken some enameled wire, a small collection of large nail, some wood screws, a scrap board, and a couple fanstock clips. And I bent nails and wound wire to make it into a small working universal motor (AC-DC). And it worked. For the rest of my life I was the REALLY weird (non-Goth - before Goth) kid in the school.

Worse than that the word got back to the (male) teacher. I found myself demonstrating the fool thing to the whole class. Did I say I have lived most of my life outside the out group?

You did remind me of the crystal radio I had, with a genuine galena crystal, eons ago. I'd clean forgotten that old thing. Match rockets? Nope. Explody things and I don't get on well. I am also noted for being somewhat clumsy. Nobody, of course, ever taught me to use tools properly. The results are not pretty. (Step father was a rich nebbish.)

{o.o}

Joanne, I freaking LOVE your stories!

In 1969 I wanted a PHILIPS EE1003 for my 10. birthday:
https://www.hansotten.com/electronic-kits/ee-series/ee100x/
So after many discussions with my father, he reluctant went to the shop, where I had seen this building set, with me.
I remember well, that he asked the seller several times, whether anything could explode or burn or do any harm to his son and for what this set could be used at all and would it eventually be helpful for scool. How embarrassing for me ...
Later at home he told me, he would perhaps think about it. In the end I got it for my birthday ...
With this EE1003 I could also build a detector radio with a OA85 and many other things. 

exactly how i learned the first thing in electronics ... a phillips ee1003

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