Only 3 components to build a radio

Do you know how to build a radio receiver with only 3 components ? Let me tell you how:

1 - connect a speaker, a transformer and a potentiometer.
2 - plug it
3 - listen

Clear sound, no QRM.

Here is a video tutorial:

Jokes aside, I’ve never heard of this system before. Have you?

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In USSR that used to be called ‘радиоточка’ or ‘radiotochka’
Here is a wiki on the system in Russian Проводное вещание — Википедия
Similar system wiki in English Cable radio - Wikipedia
Don’t plug that in to the Mains though :slight_smile:

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