Dave M6XTY
As of September 28, 2026 1248Z
So far, total receivers built: 139 (131 plus 8 honorable mentions). Total Count: 139. Receivers built in 19 countries.
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 (Canada)
KI5SRY Mark -- Gears on PTO screw
KA1MUQ Frying pan receiver
AA1N Adam
ZL1AUN Aaron -- Using SSB transmitter -- (New Zealand)
W8UC Never before homebrewed.
VK4PG Phil -- Nice case, "really pleased"
G7LQX Working well, video of CW and SSB. -- (England)
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. -- (Scotland)
KF8BOG Jim: A long struggle, but success.
Chris Wales Fantastic video. -- (Wales)
YD9BAX Wayan! Homebrew transformer! (Indonesia)
N0NQD Jeff
WN3F Roy -- Made new stickers!
AB5XQ Bill
KB7ZUT Andy
AA1OF Jer
VictorKees Holland (Netherlands)
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 (Australia)
LU2VJM Juan in Argentina -- (Argentina)
K1OA Scott "Most fun in 50 years"
KC9DLM Ben -- Had EFHW problems
PH2LB Lex Yellow, Glue Stick -- (Netherlands)
AI6WR David
G6GEV Dave (It was a blast!) (England)
KC1ONM Wayne MakerLabs NH
KB1OIQ Andy MakerLabs NH
KA1PQK Jay MakerLabs NH
W1TKO Mike MakerLabs NH
K5KHK Karl
SM0TPW Mikael -- (Sweden)
KI7LKB Brian (coat hanger tube)
M6CRD Chris (England)
W2DAB Dave in NYC
W4JYK Wes of VWS
KA4CDN Mike of VWS
M7EFO Adrian
VK5RC Rob (Australia)
KD8KHP Dave
VK1CHW Chris (Australia)
KA0PHJ Brian
W0IT Louis
W1PJE Phil
W2AEW Alan
KN6FVK John (Barkhausen-Be-Gone Spray)
VU2JXN Ramakrishnan -- (India)
AA0MS Doug
9V1/KM7ABZ Paul -- (Singapore)
VK2BLQ Stephen -- (Australia)
N3FJZ Rick
Daniel VE5DLD -- (Canada)
Student 1 Student of VE5DLD
Student 2 Student of VE5DLD
Student 3 Student of VE5DLD
K7WXW Bill
NK3H Mitch
KN4ZXG Ted
WA1MAC Paul
N4AVC Chuck
K3IY Kevin
N6ASD Ashish in Bangalore (India)
W1DSP Rick
WD4CFN Steve
KM5Z Mike
KF5DAN Dan
Fritz Fritz
N9OK Joe
WA5DSS Bill
K0GDB Grant
G0JNR Shane Glow-in-Dark Coil Form
KK7BCO Tobias
K2BVR Bob
Robert Sutton
K5YFO Dave (Texas)
KD4PBJ Chris
KN4GAH Chris -- EE perspective
F1GMA Philippe -- (France)
W2TEF Todd
EI9ITB Karl -- (Ireland)
VU2TUM Puneit Singh (India)
AA7EE Dave Richards
KI5VIR Jay
CT7AXD Graham -- Promoted from Honorable Mention! (Portugal)
G3MOT Josh (England)
KW4H Steve
NJ7V Charlie (RedSummit)
N2ETZ Denny
AB9LM James
W9XT Gary
G0PJT Alex
KF8FZZ Tyler
N7HPR Steve (Instructor) (N7HPR Group)
Clark (N7HPR Group)
KQ4ZHO Kurt (N7HPR Group)
KQ4OBR Brian (N7HPR Group)
KR4CUF Justin (N7HPR Group)
Amanda (N7HPR Group)
David (N7HPR Group)
KM4AED Jamey (N7HPR Group)
KN4MVH Larry (N7HPR Group)
N5GVW Dick (N7HPR Group)
W7KAL Kal
KC9LFP Joe
SP9DEL Marian (Poland)
LB8VA Ivar (Norway)
AA7FO Chuck Adams!
WE6Z Doug
N7MN Jason
VA2GJ Gerald in Quebec
N6HA Bill
Andri Bandung, West Java, (Indonesia)
K6AUS Scott
Brett K Tasmania (Australia)
Dave M6XTY
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Honorable Mentions:
*AA7U Steve No PTO
*VK7IAN Ian -- No Manhattan boards -- (Tasmania)
*KC1FSZ Bruce's build on a PC board
* DL1AJG Andreas -- (Germany)
* Matthew Student of DL1AJG
* Arash Student of DL1AJG
*KA4KXX Walter -- FB 20 Meter version
*M9KCA-ST2NH Nader - LM386 in place of AF amp
Greetings Bill and Dean
ReplyDeleteCongratulations -- on marking this achievement
Best to you !
SSR Crew: Lid and M.J. (plus cats)
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Is that you Vasily? I hope it is you! 73 Bill N2CQR
DeleteHi again Bill !
ReplyDeleteWell, old Vasily “retired” with the old website and then after that, the blog that ran for nearly 10 years starting in 2015. In Jan 2025, I started a new video channel from scratch along with a small support blog. Then, a few months later my wife M.J. fully retired and wanted to partner in a new endeavour --- so we morphed that channel into So Simple Radio. We work at it slowly -- and just enjoy this small project and the interesting emails we get.
M.J. does some video filming and production, emailing and definitely is the brains of the outfit. You will hear her in our next video – but we’re in no hurry to make one. We’re busy learning, designing + soldering -- and also learning some new surface mount techniques from nanofix on YouTube. We are currently making a new soldering station with better technique for our bench adventures. It feels both humbling & great to do this – and it opens the doors for new exciting and very small SMT parts.
Further, we are dedicated to low voltage designs – mostly 5 volts -- but now were also learning how to manage signals at 3.3 VDC. A good challenge for us.
Why Lid --
This came from an emailer – Chen Wei from Singapore.
I wrote him that as I age and gain wisdom – what I’ve really learned is how little I know about electronics -- and that I’m quite inept as a modern radio operator -- with for example, the machine-to-machine modes like FT8. He remarked – well, then you are a lid.
It stuck -- Lid is my handle on SSR. It helps me cultivate humility and hopefully helps to fight off cognitive cognitive biases such as Dunning–Kruger effect.
Most of our small, but passionate reader group are not Hams. So we make both non-amateur and amateur content. Right now a DC receiver – next a VHF AM receiver – etc. People have also requested we build and analyse some circuits from EMRFD at low DC voltage – this sounds like a great challange to ponder.. .
We don’t spend much time surfing the Internet – but, when we do come on, we’re excited to see that so many people have built your little direct conversion receiver. Great work Bill and Dean!
Best!
I remember visiting a MacDonalds specifically to obtain a few of their excellent coil winding straws.
ReplyDeleteSadly , the straws are their best product.
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