This medium wave radio works with any general purpose NPN transistor. The diode must be made of germanium and a coil formed by 50 + 50 turns of wire 26 to 30 on a ferrite rod.
This circuit was obtained in a magazine for radio amateurs 73 of the 90s. The circuit is based on...
This circuit is from a documentation on the MC1539 from Motorola and may, however, be implemented...