Louis W0IT Completes a Very Long-Term Goal and Finishes His Direct Conversion Receiver

Louis W0IT did what true homebrewers often have to do:  he persevered in an effort to make his machine work.  And he succeeded.  Congratulations Louis. Welcome to the Hall of Fame. 

Louis writes: 

I rebuilt all the boards, new components except the band pass filter and the mica caps, all which looked to be working up to spec. I bought the squares as they are smaller than the ones I made and while harder in someways they kept the mess down. I bought some J310's from Mouser and either the ones I had were less than optimal or I fixed something in the resolder. I ended up with 4 batches of those. They all tested different and the Mouser sourced ones had the lowest Vg (turn on voltage?) according to my 12$ tester at 1.65 V rather than 2.35 or 2.65 for the Amazon ones. The noise on it sounds almost identical to the noise on my Kenwood on the same antenna. Thanks Everyone. It's part of a very long term goal.

A very nice post about ham radio in Thailand by Louis: 

https://louiskatz.net/wpt/