{"id":5666,"date":"2025-03-09T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc-receiver-into-a-double-sideband-transceiver-and-works-idaho-from-california\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:58","slug":"nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc-receiver-into-a-double-sideband-transceiver-and-works-idaho-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc-receiver-into-a-double-sideband-transceiver-and-works-idaho-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate KA1MUQ Turns His Frying Pan DC Receiver into a Double Sideband Transceiver and Works Idaho from California"},"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\/CSvXvw0ziCY?si=Fxv2IprE6QReX1CH?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Wow, you can see the look of homebrew satisfaction as Nate works Idaho from California with his homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver. It is a good thing that Nate got that frying pan into the shack before he was banned from the kitchen. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Nate writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i><b>I finally got my DCR to be a DSB transceiver. I had a lot of trouble with transmitted RF getting back in to the VFO and causing distortion. While I imagine I could have tried putting the VFO in metal box, I instead opted to move the VFO to a 4.7-5 MHz range and then mix that with a 12 MHz crystal oscillator. Now the VFO is at a frequency unaffected by transmit RF. This mixer and crystal oscillator are on the breadboard and from SSDRA. The transmit amplifier chain was taken from Fahran&#8217;s Daylight Again radio. I just got a 570 mile contact on 5 watts &#8211; conditions are good. If there is interest let me know and I&#8217;ll share my schematic.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/KA1MUQ20DSB.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"3000\" data-original-width=\"4000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/KA1MUQ20DSB.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I looked this morning and I have 100 DSB posts on the SolderSmoke blog. There are lots of ideas there on how to homebrew for DSB, many of them from Cuba, many covering DSB rigs that I built in the Azores, and others that I used in the Dominican Republic. Check it out: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/DSB\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/DSB<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/DSB\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, you can see the look of homebrew satisfaction as Nate works Idaho from California with his homebrew Double Sideband Transceiver. It is a good thing that Nate got that frying pan into the shack before he was banned from the kitchen. Nate writes: I finally got my DCR to be a DSB transceiver. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/nate-ka1muq-turns-his-frying-pan-dc-receiver-into-a-double-sideband-transceiver-and-works-idaho-from-california\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nate KA1MUQ Turns His Frying Pan DC Receiver into a Double Sideband Transceiver and Works Idaho from California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,33,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dsb","category-farhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","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=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}