{"id":1290,"date":"2022-10-06T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/adding-a-diode-ring-to-the-direct-conversion-receiver-and-how-the-diode-ring-works\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:55","slug":"adding-a-diode-ring-to-the-direct-conversion-receiver-and-how-the-diode-ring-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/adding-a-diode-ring-to-the-direct-conversion-receiver-and-how-the-diode-ring-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding a Diode Ring to the Direct Conversion Receiver, And How the Diode Ring Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTcGWwyzLdI?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b>I take a look back at Wes Hayward&#8217;s classic DC receiver from the November 1968 QST. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b> I then try to describe how diode ring mixers work (&#8220;the particular go of it&#8221;) using Alan Wolke&#8217;s excellent YouTube description as my base. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b>I present some drawings that I did that use the &#8220;crossed diode&#8221; diagram as the start.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b>I also discuss interference from Radio Marti&#8217;s 250 kW transmitter on 7335 kHz in Greenville NC. <\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b>Finally, we listen to the receiver a bit.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtfKuvkhux9ETO-IGXTU31eBoJ4BBmuhAISQeKIrdj4vbxlCxbetZ9hQXb7M-W5B20K77pAzRPwd9B-dhzeKWjCA9XXmATToM6dSBTdG1U4avriU0xWQuH2tItGHa1H9mVNl5J2mDI_5MIWVMym5b4SfKZqmOhQcNb41poWph63aGJHrhpCNdA3-w7\/s1082\/W2AEW's%20Explanation%20of%20the%20Diode%20Ring.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"608\" data-original-width=\"1082\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image_1753060290.png's%20Explanation%20of%20the%20Diode%20Ring.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Alan Wolke&#8217;s Diagram<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image206.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"690\" data-original-width=\"776\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image206.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">Wes Hayward&#8217;s 1968 DC Receiver<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take a look back at Wes Hayward&#8217;s classic DC receiver from the November 1968 QST. I then try to describe how diode ring mixers work (&#8220;the particular go of it&#8221;) using Alan Wolke&#8217;s excellent YouTube description as my base. I present some drawings that I did that use the &#8220;crossed diode&#8221; diagram as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/10\/06\/adding-a-diode-ring-to-the-direct-conversion-receiver-and-how-the-diode-ring-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adding a Diode Ring to the Direct Conversion Receiver, And How the Diode Ring Works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,60,45,12,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-hayward-wes","category-interference","category-tj-dc-rx","category-wolke-alan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","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=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}