{"id":3425,"date":"2025-07-09T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/dan-kf5dans-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"dan-kf5dans-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/dan-kf5dans-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan KF5DAN&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object class=\"BLOG_video_class\" contentid=\"8e01487aa8c4eeb1\" height=\"266\" id=\"BLOG_video-8e01487aa8c4eeb1\" width=\"320\"><\/object><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>It is a happy occassion whenever we get to announce a new member of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame. And Dan KF5DAN has entered the hallowed halls. Congratulations Dan. We are really glad you are doing the happy dance. Above you can see Dan&#8217;s receiver inhaling SSB, in the video below you see it receiving CW. <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b>Dan writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><b><span style=\"border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><i>I would like to present proof of life! I found the motorboating issue in my amplifier. R18, 1K resistor was connected from the power rail to the base of Q5, instead of the collector. I moved it, and had already added a 470uF cap from earlier troubleshooting. There is a lot of noise, probably due to some stormy weather in Arkansas this evening. I&#8217;m doing the happy dance over here.<\/i><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><span style=\"white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\">Thank you very much! I am very appreciative of all the guidance and suggestions everyone has provided. I am very happy to be in this group of hams and homebrewers.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b><span style=\"white-space-collapse: break-spaces;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object class=\"BLOG_video_class\" contentid=\"5e23fdce67131279\" height=\"266\" id=\"BLOG_video-5e23fdce67131279\" width=\"320\"><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a happy occassion whenever we get to announce a new member of the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver Hall of Fame. And Dan KF5DAN has entered the hallowed halls. Congratulations Dan. We are really glad you are doing the happy dance. Above you can see Dan&#8217;s receiver inhaling SSB, in the video below you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/09\/dan-kf5dans-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dan KF5DAN&#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-3425","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\/3425","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=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}