Nate KA1MUQ's Frying Pan SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

This one is kind of "out there," on the fringes of radio respectability.  But on the other hand Nate KA1MUQ has just took to a new limit the old ham radio tradition of raiding the kitchen for items that will serve the bases of support for new rigs.  Usually, these items are wooden breadboards (hence the term).  Nate has taken this quite a bit further, appropriating an entire frying pan because of its copper bottom.  Nate reports that there is good news and bad news:  The good news is that the receiver is working.  The bad news is that his wife has banned him from the kitchen.  It takes a brave and dedicated homebrewer to do something like this.  Kudos Nate.  But you probably should stay out of the kitchen.  

Nate's receiver sounds great, and had provoked some much-needed humor on Discord:   There were comments about too much bacon frying noise.  And about the frequency readout being eggzactly right.  Dead pan humor, and the possibility of a pan-adapter.  FB!  

Thanks a lot Nate and congratulations. 

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