{"id":1258,"date":"2018-02-20T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/n8nms-20-dollar-bill-dc-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:08:27","slug":"n8nms-20-dollar-bill-dc-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/n8nms-20-dollar-bill-dc-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"N8NM’s “20 Dollar Bill” DC Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I call it “The $20 Bill” because it contains about $20 in junkbox parts and complies with Bill’s discreet component, hardware defined radio ethos.<\/b><\/div>\n
73 – Steve N8NM<\/b><\/div>\n
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Excellent Steve. Very nice. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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Your post caused me to fire up my DC RX — I was listening on 40 earlier today. I think the world needs MORE 40 meter direct conversion receivers. <\/b> <\/p>\n

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Too bad about the regulator IC chip. We need to get you an 8 volt Zener so that you can bring that receiver into a state of discrete component purity. <\/b><\/div>\n

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DISCRETE HDR FOREVER! <\/b><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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73 Bill N2CQR <\/b><\/div>\n
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Steve N8NM wrote: I call it “The $20 Bill” because it contains about $20 in junkbox parts and complies with Bill’s discreet component, hardware defined radio ethos. 73 – Steve N8NM https:\/\/n8nmsteve.blogspot.com\/2018\/02\/spontaneous-construction-20-bill-or-oh.html I replied: Excellent Steve. Very nice. Your post caused me to fire up my DC RX — I was listening on 40 earlier … Continue reading “N8NM’s “20 Dollar Bill” DC Receiver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,35,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-direct-conversion","category-murphy-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}