Requesting Mentorship for Ham-Radio.

The easiest path is to build from a kit which searches the commercial AM band. For me useful kits have been the Radio Shack 300-in-1 lab and 160-in-1 lab. These contain the exact L & C values which resonate with 1MHz or so, usually with dial tuning. As an alternative make your own 'crystal' set. Nowadays you'll use a diode detector instead of a galena chunk or blued razor blade.

The emphasis is on a long antenna wire, preferably outdoors. And high-impedance (ceramic) headphones. If you're lucky you can detect at least one strong broadcast.

The ancient kits are oriented to a simpler time when radio enthusiasts were numerous. HAM radio clubs too. Operators often cooperated to maintain repeater stations or perform emergency communications in times of disasters.