{"id":2486,"date":"2025-02-26T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/chriss-homebrew-direct-conversion-receiver-from-wales-in-the-uk\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"chriss-homebrew-direct-conversion-receiver-from-wales-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/chriss-homebrew-direct-conversion-receiver-from-wales-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris&#8217;s Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver &#8212; From Wales in the UK"},"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\/9ypGxn_bRfo?si=9j2wl3adFWWEOpqT?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>A few of the builders are so new to the hobby that they don&#8217;t even have ham licenses yet. That is the case with Chris from Wales. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Chris writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><i><b>Here\u2019s mine up and working, antenna is now 84\u2019 of wire from a window to a tree with 33\u2019 counterpoise hanging to the ground. Just for the record I have absolutely no experience of radio and only one year of messing around with electronics. I\u2019ve learnt more in the last 4 weeks thanks to you guys. It has been a great experience. Thanks<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<p><b>I replied that if there were any justice in the world, Chris would be given a ham license just on the basis of having built this great looking and great sounding receiver. You can hear it handling some 40 meter SSB signals in the clip above. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks a lot Chris! <\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b>For more information on how you too can build the receiver: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0px;\"><b><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Join the discussion &#8211; SolderSmoke Discord Server:<\/span><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-attachment: initial; 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That is the case with Chris from Wales. Chris writes: Here\u2019s mine up and working, antenna is now 84\u2019 of wire from a window to a tree with 33\u2019 counterpoise hanging to the ground. Just for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/chriss-homebrew-direct-conversion-receiver-from-wales-in-the-uk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chris&#8217;s Homebrew Direct Conversion Receiver &#8212; From Wales in the UK&#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":[9,11,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","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=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11143,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions\/11143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}