{"id":3405,"date":"2023-01-27T11:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/n3fjz-builds-pto-for-high-school-dc-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:02:54","slug":"n3fjz-builds-pto-for-high-school-dc-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/n3fjz-builds-pto-for-high-school-dc-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"N3FJZ Builds PTO for High School DC 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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ebTVi--uCbg?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><b>Rick N3FJZ has stepped forward and is building <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2023\/01\/update-on-high-school-direct-conversion.html\">the direct conversion receiver that Dean and I have been working on<\/a>. This will be big help in our testing of the receiver. See above for the video report on his build of the PTO stage. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>When I saw this, I found myself thinking two things: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>1) Those really are &#8220;rigs.&#8221; <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>and<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>2) I am not alone! <\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Years ago, I was having a tough day on 40 meters. The Waterfall Policemen were gleefully attacking my admitedly less-than-perfect SSB signal. Unbeknownst to me, someone out there was listening, and listening with a homebrew receiver. A receiver with a PTO. It was Rick N3FJZ. He made my day when he sent this video: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/parasitic-anguish-on-40-then-homebrew.html\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2015\/02\/parasitic-anguish-on-40-then-homebrew.html<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here are the other blog posts on the amazing rigs of N3FJZ here: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=N3FJZ\"><b>https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=N3FJZ<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>More to follow, both on Rick&#8217;s receiver and on the work of other intrepid builders. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Rick. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick N3FJZ has stepped forward and is building the direct conversion receiver that Dean and I have been working on. This will be big help in our testing of the receiver. See above for the video report on his build of the PTO stage. When I saw this, I found myself thinking two things: 1) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2023\/01\/27\/n3fjz-builds-pto-for-high-school-dc-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;N3FJZ Builds PTO for High School DC 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":[35,46,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-hb2hb","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","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=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}