Why do crystal sets use diodes instead of transistors?
This isn't the 1890s, so why use 1890s technology when we have invented the transistor?
Transistors have been famously shown to have rectification properties in guitar amps at radio frequencies, and the regen radio uses a transistor instead of a diode.
The transistor in the regen radio amplfies and rectifies at the same time, so why not use a transistor in a crystal set for better results?
Does it have to do with the definition of crystal set?
Is crystal set defined that the only semi conductor it uses is a diode?
So if it used a transistor instead of a crystal, then it would be called ...a transistor radio instead of a crystal radio...?
This isn't the 1890s, so why use 1890s technology when we have invented the transistor?
Transistors have been famously shown to have rectification properties in guitar amps at radio frequencies, and the regen radio uses a transistor instead of a diode.
The transistor in the regen radio amplfies and rectifies at the same time, so why not use a transistor in a crystal set for better results?
Does it have to do with the definition of crystal set?
Is crystal set defined that the only semi conductor it uses is a diode?
So if it used a transistor instead of a crystal, then it would be called ...a transistor radio instead of a crystal radio...?