{"id":6218,"date":"2025-01-13T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-challenge-video-1\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:00:59","slug":"soldersmoke-direct-conversion-challenge-video-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-challenge-video-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge &#8212; Video #1"},"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\/rLjxU2rMeXw?si=OdtLB567uQHH77dy?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222;\">This is the first in a series of videos and postings on the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver challenge. Dean, KK4DAS takes us through an overview of the project. He covers the architecture of the receiver, construction techniques, component sourcing and selection and generally sets the stage for the build. Future videos will cover each board in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;\"><u><\/u> <u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;\">We are very excited invite you to join the SolderSmoke Discord server. This is an experiment to see if Discord is a good forum for SolderSmoke listeners to interact with us and each other on topics of interest. For now, we will be used Discord exclusively for discussion of the DCR challenge. To join the SolderSmoke Discord server click on the link below.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;\"><u><\/u> <u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;\">Links and references:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px;\"><u><\/u> <u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span><u><\/u><span face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 31.2px;\">Join the discussion &#8211; SolderSmoke Discord Server<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; 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line-height: 31.2px;\">Documentation on Hackaday<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span><u><\/u><span face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 26.4px;\"><a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/190327-high-schoolers-build-a-radio-receiver&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1736887344786000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3U-MLEQOsIbXbl-_R2UntN\" href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.io\/project\/190327-high-schoolers-build-a-radio-receiver\" style=\"color: #1155cc;\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: black;\">High Schoolers Build a Radio Receiver | Hackaday.io<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span><u><\/u><span face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 31.2px;\">SolderSmoke YouTube channel<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@soldersmoke\"> <\/a><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@soldersmoke\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 26.4px;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">SolderSmoke<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\"> &#8212; Homebrew Ham Radio &#8211; YouTube<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;\"> <\/span><\/span><u><\/u><span face=\"Calibri, sans-serif\" style=\"color: black; line-height: 31.2px;\">SolderSmoke blog<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 31.2px;\"><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 11.7px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.75in;\"><u><\/u><span face=\"Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"line-height: 26.4px;\">\u2022<span style=\"font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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Dean, KK4DAS takes us through an overview of the project. He covers the architecture of the receiver, construction techniques, component sourcing and selection and generally sets the stage for the build. Future videos will cover each board &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/01\/13\/soldersmoke-direct-conversion-challenge-video-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Challenge &#8212; Video #1&#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":[35,248,21,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-conversion","category-direct-conversion-challenge","category-homebrew","category-tj-dc-rx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","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=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}