{"id":6254,"date":"2024-04-16T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/04\/16\/the-rad-receiver-from-n6gwb\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:01:41","slug":"the-rad-receiver-from-n6gwb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2024\/04\/16\/the-rad-receiver-from-n6gwb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rad Receiver from N6GWB"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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Geoff N6GWB and his eldest have produced a really wonderful receiver, and have joined the elite ranks of those who have built their own receivers. Congratulations to both! (<\/b><\/i><\/span> Be sure to watch the video below.)<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

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Though I built it, my eldest has retained naming rights. Behold the Rad Radio Receiver, an Soldersmoke inspired build. It\u2019s a 40m DC reciever. I had planned on making this a truly 50-50 N6QW N2CQR build, but I needed to get it done for a show and tell this Wednesday. I have N6QW dual JFET RF amp and mixer modules. I have the N2CQR ceramic ocillator circuit from the 2017 DC receiver project. I had planned on including the all analog audio amp from the more recent N2CQR DC project, but alas, time got the best of me. I was hoping to make the whole thing all-analog. (I thought the all analog would get me more \u201chard work\u201d kudos at the show and tell.) I ended up including a LM386 audio amp making this a bit of a cyborg.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n


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I have included pictures of the receiver open and closed. The closed pic includes bespoke decals. I have also include a brief movie demonstrating the audio.
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Many, many thanks for the inspiration and knowledge!
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Geoff N6GWB and his eldest have produced a really wonderful receiver, and have joined the elite ranks of those who have built their own receivers. Congratulations to both! ( Be sure to watch the video below.) Geoff writes: Though I built it, my eldest has retained naming rights. Behold the Rad Radio Receiver, an Soldersmoke … Continue reading “The Rad Receiver from N6GWB”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-40-meters","category-direct-conversion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}