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This video shows how useful this receiver really is.  Build one of these!

  Another FB video from Mike WU2D.    But you know,  I too find myself kind of opposed to front panel on-off switches.  I power my rigs with...

I made the video above to show postential builders how useful our Direct Conversion receiver really is.   Late in the video (starting at 11:...

Scott KQ4AOP put a comment on a recent SolderSmoke Blog post that I found especially encouraging and apprportiate. He was writing about his ...

An early version of our DC receiver.  Note the tuning guide under the grey tuning knob.  We prepared this for use by the high school student...

Here is another great video (and project) from Mike WU2D.  I'm a big fan of homebrew superhets.  And wow, Mike presents a band-imaging s...

Dean KK4DAS's Beautiful DC Receiver The folks over at Ham Radio Workbench have graciously accepted the challenge issued in our last podc...

It is just very cool to see someone build a superhet and get it to work.  For so many years amateurs were told that "homebrew receivers...

Nick's video appears above.  First, let me say FB Nick.   It is nice to see you making use of the AGC amp designed by Wes and Bob,  usin...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7t_E5N4CQxg Red did a nice job building, then explaining, this 18 MHz crystal oscillator.   I especially like...

This is a good sample (!) of the great content to be found in "The Communicator." This is the bimonthly publication of the Surrey ...

  A thing of beauty on a wooden board.  Pete's post:   https://n6qw.blogspot.com/2024/11/11252024-1st-dx-with-40m-hybrid-rig.html "...