{"id":4243,"date":"2024-12-08T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/the-build-is-the-initiation-kq4aop-offers-encouragement-and-a-pto-coil-form-for-receiver-builders\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:19","slug":"the-build-is-the-initiation-kq4aop-offers-encouragement-and-a-pto-coil-form-for-receiver-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/the-build-is-the-initiation-kq4aop-offers-encouragement-and-a-pto-coil-form-for-receiver-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Build Is the Initiation&#8221;  &#8212; KQ4AOP Offers Encouragement and a PTO Coil Form for Receiver Builders"},"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\/o6qENojhNqE?si=iwdWcOqBF3pex1Wt?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Scott KQ4AOP put a comment on a recent SolderSmoke Blog post that I found especially encouraging and apprportiate. He was writing about his experience building the <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/190327-high-schoolers-build-a-radio-receiver\">High School Direct Conversion receiver. <\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Scott wrote:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span face=\"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #37474f; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\">&#8220;This was my first receiver build and, it was great fun. When you finish the build and prove you are able to tune through the band, you are welcomed into the secret society! The build is the initiation. <\/span><span face=\"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #37474f; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\">I am happy to print and ship the PTO if needed.&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #37474f; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\">The 3d printed form for the tuning inductor is often a show-stopper for prospective builders. Scott offers to print out a form for you, and send it to you. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Scott&#8217;s mailing address is on his QRZ page. His e-mail address is: <span face=\"\"Google Sans\", Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white;\">streez55@gmail.com<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #37474f; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\"> Thanks Scott! <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #37474f; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\">Here is a post I did early this year on Scott&#8217;s receiver: <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/scott-kq4aop-successfully-builds.html\"><span face=\"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.25px;\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2024\/02\/scott-kq4aop-successfully-builds.html<\/span><\/span><span face=\"Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25px;\"> <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Here are the SolderSmoke Posts about this project (keep scrolling &#8212; there are 41 posts!):<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/TJ%20DC%20RX\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/TJ%20DC%20RX <\/span><\/a><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott KQ4AOP put a comment on a recent SolderSmoke Blog post that I found especially encouraging and apprportiate. He was writing about his experience building the High School Direct Conversion receiver. Scott wrote: &#8220;This was my first receiver build and, it was great fun. When you finish the build and prove you are able to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/12\/08\/the-build-is-the-initiation-kq4aop-offers-encouragement-and-a-pto-coil-form-for-receiver-builders\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Build Is the Initiation&#8221;  &#8212; KQ4AOP Offers Encouragement and a PTO Coil Form for Receiver Builders&#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":[35,365,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-pto","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","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=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}