{"id":2750,"date":"2025-03-03T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T22:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/steve-n9szs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"steve-n9szs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/steve-n9szs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve N9SZ&#8217;s FB 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\/Yrq0VtK5f4g?si=1j8cVJJ7LCDEW3pl?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>FB Steve! Your receiver looks and sounds great! Congratulations! <\/b> <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Steve writes: <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span color=\"oklab(0.89908 -0.00192907 -0.0048306)\" face=\"\"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: oklab(0.0846607 0.00000385568 0.00000169128 \/ 0.06); font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span face=\"\"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><i>Thanks to Bill and Dean for all their work and promotion of this project. I learned alot and had fun. The receiver works well now after much tweaking. I need to finalize how the boards will be mounted. I am thinking of mounting the BPF and audio amp boards vertically on the edge of my small piece of wood and create a front panel using a PCB to mount a on-off switch, volume control. on\/off LED, and the speaker\/headphone jack. I also want to add a rear PCB to hold an antenna jack and power jack. <\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><span face=\"\"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><span face=\"\"gg sans\", \"Noto Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 16px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><i>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\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; 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=\"color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt;\"><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/discord.gg\/Fu6B7yGxx2&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1739470652838000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1ZoxkyzfQb8pwED_KtyCKW\" href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/Fu6B7yGxx2\" style=\"color: #1155cc; 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Your receiver looks and sounds great! Congratulations! Steve writes: Thanks to Bill and Dean for all their work and promotion of this project. I learned alot and had fun. The receiver works well now after much tweaking. I need to finalize how the boards will be mounted. I am thinking of mounting the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/03\/steve-n9szs-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steve N9SZ&#8217;s FB 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-2750","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\/2750","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=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11135,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/11135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}