Showing posts with label Direct Conversion Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Direct Conversion Challenge. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2025

SolderSmoke Podcast #260 FDIM, Hollow State Design, Pete's Bench and the Shelf of Shame, Direct Conversion Project News, How Best to Preserve this Blog?, Dean's Bench and the Desk of Despair, Bill's Bench and the Garage of Grief, MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #260 is available:  Audio version:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke260.mp3 Video version:  https://www.youtube.com/w...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Homebrew vs. Kits -- The influence of Russian Homebrewers

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  Click on the image for a better read.   Like Kirk, I too was influenced by the Russian and Eastern European homebrewers.  As a kid, every ...
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Sunday, April 6, 2025

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

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Dean KK4DAS's Receiver Please let us know if you spot any errors, or if we have inadvertently missed anyone.  Don't worry about bein...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

FCC to Ban Direct Conversion Receivers

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From the FCC News Line:   The Federal Communications Commission announced today that it will soon ban a wide range of communications equipme...
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Friday, March 7, 2025

Homebrew Challenges Much Like Ours: The Direct Conversion Receiver of Wes Hayward W7ZOI and Dick Bingham W7WKR -- QST November 1968

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  https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-DX/QST/60s/QST-1968-11.pdf I was thinking about some of the challenges faced by the builders of ...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Andy KB7ZUT is a Good Sport -- He Built the Direct Conversion Receiver HIS WAY, then OUR WAY. Great StarTrek Cartoons

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  Early on, Andy sent in a report on a Direct Conversion receiver that he had built.  It looked kind of like ours, but it was clearly NOT ou...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

Wayde VA3NCA Receives SSB, CW, FT8, and CHU Canada on his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver

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Above you can watch and listen to Wayde's receiver as he tunes across 40 meters.  It sounds good, even though Wayde is thinking about so...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Jim KF8BOG Completes the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver after a Long, Hard Journey of Discovery

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Herodotus once said that "learning is not child's play -- we cannot learn without pain." I think Jim KF8BOG proved that in thi...
Thursday, February 27, 2025

VK4PG's Wonderful Australian Direct Conversion Receiver from Sunny Queensland

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It was really great to hear those Australian voices coming from Phil's receiver.  Check out the video above.  Phil writes:   Completion!...
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Derek N9TD's SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver -- With a Double Sideband Transmitter

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  Derek N9TD was another of the early builders of the Direct Conversion receiver; he has done really magnificent work.  He is an Electrical ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Scott KQ4AOP Built the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver, and Listened to his FIRST EVER Ham Signals with it

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Scott KQ4AOP's build of this receiver is especially noteworthy, becasue he used the receiver to hear the very first ham radio signals he...
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