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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

The Hall of Fame: 71 Direct Conversion Receivers Completed (so far) with 7 Honorable Mentions. More coming. Update.

Dean KK4DAS's Receiver

Please let us know if you spot any errors, or if we have inadvertently missed anyone.  Don't worry about being late to the game -- the challenge continues.  All of the info is still available (see below). 

As of May 19, 2025  1717Z:

So far 71 completed receivers, with 7 honorable mentions:  

NE3U (KY4EOD)  Matt 
KQ4AOP       First ham signals ever heard! 
N9TD             Derek
AC3NG          Ryan
VK3TPM       Peter Marks  
W4KAC         Ken 
W4KAC         Ken built a second one! 
N2EPE           Erik
VA3NCA        Wayde    
KI5SRY          Mark -- Gears on PTO screw
 
KA1MUQ       Frying pan receiver
AA1N              Adam
ZL1AUN         Aaron -- Using SSB transmitter
W8UC             Never before homebrewed. 
VK4PG           Phil -- Nice case, "really pleased"
G7LQX           Working well, video of CW and SSB. 
KE2AMP        John     Spring on PTO screw -- great
N9SZ              Steve  nice receiver
KD9NHZ        Piotr  Nice one
KE8ICE          Calvin, Very cool receiver. 
 
WV3V              Jayson!  Got it done!
GM5JDG         Martin.    
KF8BOG          Jim:  A long struggle, but success.  
Chris Wales    Fantastic video.  
YD9BAX        Wayan! Homebrew transformer! 
N0NQD        Jeff 
WN3F              Roy -- Made new stickers! 
AB5XQ            Bill  
KB7ZUT          Andy  
AA1OF            Jer

VictorKees        Holland
KC9OJV           John -- Manhattan-style convert
WZ5M              1, 2 or maybe even 3 receivers!
K1KJW             Jim in Vermont
KC5DI              Dallas -- friend of WZ5M
Gary                 Australian -- Wooden PTO form
LU2VJM          Juan in Argentina
K1OA               Scott "Most fun in 50 years"
KC9DLM         Ben -- Had EFHW problems
PH2LB             Lex  Yellow, Glue Stick

AI6WR             David
G6GEV            Dave (It was a blast!) 
KC1ONM        Wayne  MakerLabs NH
KB1OIQ          Andy    MakerLabs NH
KA1PQK         Jay       MakerLabs NH
W1TKO           Mike    MakerLabs NH
K5KHK            Karl
SM0TPW         Mikael
KI7LKB           Brian (coat hanger tube)
M6CRD            Chris

W2DAB           Dave in NYC
W4JYK            Wes of VWS
KA4CDN          Mike of VWS
M7EFO             Adrian 
VK5RC             Rob
KD8KHP          Dave
VK1CHW         Chris
KA0PHJ           Brian
W0IT                Louis
W1PJE             Phil

W2AEW           Alan
KN6FVK          John (Barkhausen-Be-Gone Spray) 
VU2JXN           Ramakrishnan
AA0MS            Doug 
9V1/KM7ABZ   Paul in Singapore
VK2BLQ          Stephen
N3FJZ              Rick
Daniel               VE5DLD
Student 1          Student of VE5DLD
Student 2          Student of VE5DLD

Student 3         Student of VE5DLD
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Honorable Mentions: 

*AA7U            Steve No PTO
*VK7IAN        Ian -- No Manhattan boards 
*KC1FSZ        Bruce's build on a PC board
*CT7AXD       Graham -- different AF amp
* DL1AJG      Andreas 
* Student 1     Student of DL1AJG
* Student 2     Student of DL1AJG 
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Candidates for the Hall of Fame: 


SA5RJS              Rasmus
KA9TII               James
AA7FO              Chuck 
K7WXW            Bill 
VA3ZOT           Tony  Surface Mount -- Honorable Mention? 
KM5Z              Mike Yancey
AB2XT             John (Done, just need the video)
KO7M              Jeff (Piper Cub)
KD4PBJ           Chris
VU2TUM         Puneit Singh
N6ASD             Ashish in Bangalore

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


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Documentation on Hackaday:

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

 

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1 comment:

  1. It's great to see everybody listed all at once. Congratulations everyone on completing a project that most hams will never do. You have built a receiver that sounds great and is fun to listen to. Many of you have learned a lot along the way and I appreciate all the nice notes. Honestly, when we began Bill asked me how many receivers I thought would get built and I told him about a dozen. So the fact that we have nearly 60 done and another dozen or so on the way is very gratifying. Fine business and bravo zulu to all. 73, Dean

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