Saturday, March 29, 2025

Mikael SM0TPW's FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver from Sweden

 I was very pleased to see Mikael's video.  This is our first receiver from Sweden.  In his QRZ page Mikael talks of learning CW while in the military, and of making a few contacts with the equpment of his regiment.  I had a similar experience -- I once made a CW contact with the rig assigned to our team.  

Mikael writes: 

Thank you Bill.

I’ve been a Ham for 35 years with a long gap in the middle of 20+.

I am of course a Soldersmoke listener and tried to build this dcr when you built it in the highschool project, but I didn’t succeed that time and gave up.

But with all the guidance here on discord I gave it one more go, and succeeded. 😊

The hardest thing was, as for many other, the af stage and oscillation. But some bypass caps and problem solved.

I got so much help just reading all posts here so thank you all in this community!

Now I will lean back for a while and listen to my baby. I am a proud father right now.

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Indeed Mikael, that is what Farhan advises:  it back and enjoy the receiver that you have built.  Congratulations!  The receiver sounds great on CW and on SSB.  

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For more information on how you too can build the receiver: 


Join the discussion - SolderSmoke Discord Server:

https://discord.gg/Fu6B7yGxx2

 

Documentation on Hackaday:

https://hackaday.io/project/190327-high-schoolers-build-a-radio-receiver

 

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