{"id":3242,"date":"2025-03-02T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/mark-ki5srys-soldersmoke-dc-receiver-with-a-cool-gear-driven-tuning-dial\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"mark-ki5srys-soldersmoke-dc-receiver-with-a-cool-gear-driven-tuning-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/mark-ki5srys-soldersmoke-dc-receiver-with-a-cool-gear-driven-tuning-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark KI5SRY&#8217;s SolderSmoke DC Receiver with a Cool Gear-Driven Tuning Dial"},"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\/dCxS5LPyTc4?si=7DfhVGi6popmvPMY?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjZpkPnakv7bpw6Eo5i3dDsVYwAHO9pbLGXMmrYODTguIi03-zJPkrYzgKKIR4VF8rEI5B5VgWK0_H-2DKCv84EroqYZlhK4KF2MKXRqMWka_-czymGwZSwqoaz08BWEVpqDQy3dYOTbKJtsMeNQkXi2EMHeh_57-dfxsWo-1quNCAvDyGsDoIFueIVIds\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"1536\" data-original-width=\"2048\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_1753073248.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Mark KI5SRY came up with a very innovative solution for the tuning dial problem. See above. My solution was much less sophisticated: At the suggestion of VK3YE, I just put a calibrated card underneath the screw. By looking at the screw edge from above, I could get a rough estimate of where I was in the band: <\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjEMlVZOuij0vYxlSHLoJ2yn_4sMOh456pSWnfBY3vEJzE2HPA_-QCB-U3szAcBRK3_h9Vj1hVDXlMs1LUBGUk3Ro660ODNCOHUu8O5moyW63E-FcjsHWCZCvY6Udd1C2jMpmwUqDP0sf2uk8U813KIHEasyYGHntkPpmxOlRpiFcb6mW3wdbaq48Tp-ho\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"300\" data-original-width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image_1753073244.png\" width=\"400\" \/><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Looking back on his successful build of the receiver, Mark wrote: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><i><b>You made this pretty straightforward. My biggest challenge was trying to understand what was really happening in the circuit.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><i><b>I learned how to use my oscilloscope, seeing the oscillator come to life was great.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><i><b>I would like to build a transmitter or a complete transceiver.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><b><i>Bill, thanks to all of the effort you and Dean are putting into this project. There was definitely a magical feeling dialing in and getting legible sound out something built on my bench.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><b>Very cool Mark. Congratulations! <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: \"Trebuchet MS\", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;\">\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; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/Fu6B7yGxx2<\/span><\/a><\/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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See above. My solution was much less sophisticated: At the suggestion of VK3YE, I just put a calibrated card underneath the screw. By looking at the screw edge from above, I could get a rough estimate of where I was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/02\/mark-ki5srys-soldersmoke-dc-receiver-with-a-cool-gear-driven-tuning-dial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mark KI5SRY&#8217;s SolderSmoke DC Receiver with a Cool Gear-Driven Tuning Dial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/3242","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=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}