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Sunday, April 6, 2025

The Hall of Fame -- Completed SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receivers (So far --- more to come!)

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). 

So far 53 completed receivers, with 4 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
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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
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Candidates for the Hall of Fame: 

SA5RJS              Rasmus
KA9TII               James
W2AEW             Alan
AA7FO              Chuck 
K7WXW            Bill 
W1PJE               Phil  MIT
VA3ZOT           Tony  Surface Mount -- Honorable Mention? 
KM5Z              Mike Yancey
AB2XT             John (Done, just need the video)
M7EFO            Bingo
KO7M              Jeff (Piper Cub)
K7WXW          Bill 
KD4PBJ           Chris

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

 

SolderSmoke YouTube channel:

3 comments:

  1. Very impressive! You are now the Pied Pipers of Homebrew radio. Now if only that other not to be named podcast Work
    Bench (cough) would take up the challenge 😁.

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  2. Jim: I guess this was just "Elmering" in the age of the internet. I hope some of the builders will carry on with this, and show other hams that it is possible to build their own gear. 73 Bill N2CQR

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  3. Glad to see there are still a bunch of homebrewers out there.

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