{"id":1720,"date":"2025-01-04T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/donnie-wa9tgts-direct-conversion-receivers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","slug":"donnie-wa9tgts-direct-conversion-receivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/04\/donnie-wa9tgts-direct-conversion-receivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Donnie WA9TGT’s Direct Conversion Receivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I recently built my first basic 40 meter (DC receiver) from <\/span>http:\/\/www.qrpkits.com\/ <\/a> <\/span>that uses the common SA602 & LM386 chip combo with Varactor diode tuning. I didn\u2019t want to scratch build a DC Rx simply because I first wanted to build up this simple kit with its included PCB and at least play with it a little just to see if it was something I mite wanted to further pursue. I\u2019ve since decided yes I want to, even with all a DC receivers short comings. It\u2019s was nearly as rewarding hearing my call being sent back to me for the very first time coming through this little DC Rx after calling CQ as it was back in 1966 during my very first Novice contact. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n

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Donnie’s inspirational QRZ.com page: https:\/\/www.qrz.com\/db\/WA9TGT<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n
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Donnie WA9TGT writes: I recently built my first basic 40 meter (DC receiver) from http:\/\/www.qrpkits.com\/ that uses the common SA602 & LM386 chip combo with Varactor diode tuning. I didn\u2019t want to scratch build a DC Rx simply because I first wanted to build up this simple kit with its included PCB and at least … Continue reading “Donnie WA9TGT’s Direct Conversion Receivers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,35,105,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-direct-conversion","category-kits","category-ne602"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1724,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}