{"id":10254,"date":"2025-06-18T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/steve-wd4cfns-fb-mid-tennessee-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"steve-wd4cfns-fb-mid-tennessee-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/steve-wd4cfns-fb-mid-tennessee-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve WD4CFN’s FB Mid-Tennessee SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Steve WD4CFN has built a FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver. CW reception video appears above. <\/b><\/div>\n

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From his QRZ page: “I also enjoy QRP. A group of us have started a local QRP club this year, MidTN QRP Group. (<\/span>https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/MidTNQRP<\/a>).<\/span> “<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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I finished my SS DCR tonight and connected an antenna. Lots of summer QRN, but also lots of signals. <\/i><\/b><\/span>Thank you and Dean for all the work you guys put into this project. It is so well done and documented. The whole project has been a great learning experience, especially the mixer part. I haven’t built a diode ring mixer before, just used the SA602\/SA612 type mixer. Testing the mixer pushed me to better understand how to use the FFT function of my scope to make sure the mixer was working correctly. <\/b><\/i><\/span>This was a great project! Thanks to all.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Here is Steve’s receiver inhaling SSB: <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Congratulations Steve. Welcome to the Hall of Fame. <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve WD4CFN has built a FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver. CW reception video appears above. From his QRZ page: “I also enjoy QRP. A group of us have started a local QRP club this year, MidTN QRP Group. (https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/MidTNQRP). “ Steve writes: I finished my SS DCR tonight and connected an antenna. Lots of summer … Continue reading “Steve WD4CFN’s FB Mid-Tennessee SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,87,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-qrp","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11071,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10254\/revisions\/11071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}