{"id":1581,"date":"2025-06-21T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/mike-km5zs-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"mike-km5zs-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/mike-km5zs-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike KM5Z&#8217;s SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x_-VMrpL_gU?si=G2b0TTwZ7vQRAfAd?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Congratulations to Mike KM5Z on the completion of his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Welcome to the Hall of Fame. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Mike writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">First time with &#8216;Manhattan&#8217; style construction, although it worked perfectly and was very easy. In this video I just did a scan from about 7.100 to 7.210 MHz. As you can see, I took advantage of another ham&#8217;s 3D prints.<\/span><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">After all, if an idea is worth doing, then&#8230; it&#8217;s worth overdoing.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I used a Milwaukee 1\/4&#8243; Diamond Max hole saw to cut circles for the solder-points. Everything else is ground. Later, I found that I missed a point, so I used a single &#8220;MePAD&#8221; glued in that spot.<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I found the default audio amp to be a bit quiet. I plan to replace it with the &#8216;push-pull&#8217; version. <\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">I&#8217;m definitely keeping this to hang up on the wall.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Mike KM5Z on the completion of his SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver. Welcome to the Hall of Fame. Mike writes: First time with &#8216;Manhattan&#8217; style construction, although it worked perfectly and was very easy. In this video I just did a scan from about 7.100 to 7.210 MHz. As you can see, I took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/06\/21\/mike-km5zs-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mike KM5Z&#8217;s SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver&#8221;<\/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":[9,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","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=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}